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In this laugh-out-loud personal journey, acclaimed author

Meghan Daum explores the perils and pleasures of believing that

only a house can make you whole. From her teenage apartment

fantasies and her mother’s decorating manias to her own “hidden

room” dreams and the bungalow she eventually buys on her own,

Life Would Be Perfect If I Lived in That House is the true

story of one woman’s quest for the four perfect walls to call

home.

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Meghan Daum is the author of the essay collection My

Misspent Youth and the novel The Quality of Life Report,

a New York Times Notable Book. Her column on political,

cultural, and social affairs appears weekly in the Los Angeles

Times and is distributed nationally through the McClatchy news

service. She has contributed to public radio’s Morning Edition,

Marketplace, and This American Life, and has written for

numerous publications, including The New Yorker, Harper’s

Magazine, GQ, Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, and The New York Times

Book Review. She lives in Los Angeles.

Visit the author's official website: www.meghandaum.com

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“Funny, charming and shocking. . . . [Chronicles] an obsession

that threatens to upend sanity and bank accounts. . . . Daum has a

rare gift in her ability to keep readers laughing through her own

tears. . . . Her spirit is generous, her writing is buoyant, and

her heart is open to all the ways in which a house holds the key to

happiness. Perfection has nothing to do with it.”

—The New York Times Book Review

“Wonderful. . . . Like having a long, glorious, no-holds-barred

conversation with your smartest, funniest friend about all the

juicy topics: real estate, class envy, bad dates, family identity,

and the discrepancies between the lives we aspire to and the lives

we lead. I’m awed by Daum’s honesty and talent.”

—Curtis Sittenfeld

“A delightful dissection of the real estate obsession that’s a

hallmark of our age, recession or no.”

—O, The Oprah Magazine

“Self-deprecatingly funny. . . . Daum uses her lifelong obsession

with finding the ideal living space to probe domestic desire, a

deeper restlessness than the search for quick profits.”

—The Wall Street Journal

“Honest and endearing . . . richly drawn. . . . Daum captures the

now-gone moment when real estate became a national obsession,

chronicling the shared madness of those who could only take breaks

from watching HGTV to discuss closing costs. . . . As she moves

from coast to coast and in between, Daum is consistently

relatable.”

—Los Angeles Times Book Review

“Suffused with humor and desire. . . . Alternately whimsical,

philosophical and psychologically probing. . . . [An] enchanting,

compelling memoir on the impossibility of resisting an irresistible

object of desire.”

—The Miami Herald

“Daum tackles real estate—or, more pointedly, the fixation, anxiety

and magical thinking that often accompany it—with wit and a gift

for self-parody. . . . Her prose has smarts, style and personality,

but never turns pretentious. . . . It’s a pleasure to read this

author as she revisits comic misadventures and wrangles with a

hot-button topic.”

—Time Out New York

“Vividly described. . . . Daum exposes the modern real-estate-mad

female underground, where open houses (visited in rabid two-women

teams) are a seasonal blood sport, Zillow is a verb, and where

remodeling a collapsing farmhouse into a writer’s retreat could

instantly, we imagine, transform us into the George Plimpton of the

prairie.”

—The Atlantic Monthly

“Entertaining. . . . Like a romantic comedy in which Daum always

seems to rent Mr. Wrong. . . . Don’t be surprised if you race

through Life Would Be Perfect in a single night.”

—Richmond Times-Dispatch

“Daum is the essential Generation X-er. . . . She radiates the

eternal youthfulness and the fear of commitment that define her

cohort. . . . Life Would Be Perfect is the memoir of how the

wandering Ms. Daum finally put down some roots. . . . A great

book.”

—The Philadelphia Inquirer

“Timely. . . . Daum [is] a fine writer—candid, reflective, stylish,

fun and a bit prickly. Throughout the book, she offers an

unflinching portrayal of her anxieties and her aspirations. . . .

When she finally realizes that a house is not what will make her

whole, you can’t help but breathe a sigh of relief.”

—Associated Press

“In this funny, horrifying (she came this close to buying a place

near a roaring interstate because she was smitten with a landing),

achingly honest memoir, Daum explores the way we wrap our

identities in our surroundings, at one point wondering, ‘Did the

house look sexy on me?’ Home truths, indeed.”

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书籍介绍

In this laugh-out-loud personal journey , acclaimed author Meghan Daum explores the perils and pleasures of believing that only a house can make you whole. From her teenage apartment fantasies and her mother’s decorating manias to her own “hidden room” dreams and the bungalow she eventually buys on her own, Life Would Be Perfect If I Lived in That House is the true story of one woman’s quest for the four perfect walls to call home.