Maybe she was just a little too close to the material to be a good choice to read it.
However, the author was almost whispering through long portions of the book. I do love audio books and hearing the author read this book was definitely a plus.
Would you consider the audio edition of Coming Clean to be better than the print version? At the end, I was pretty sure that Kim is as in the dark as most people who do not have the disorder are about why hoarders do the things that they do, but that she was lucky to come from the family she did nonetheless. Instead, she gives us an insider's look at what it is like to grow up in a hoard and to love the parents who "chose the stuff over me." I was really surprised by the strength of the love binding Kim and her parents, bonds that all the stuff in the world couldn't break (though there were times.) I admit I was teary-eyed at several places in the narrative, which the author does very skillfully herself. Kimberly Rae Miller does not answer this question. I think I really want to know why someone would do this to themselves and their families. But whatever the reason, since awareness of the disorder (and I do think it's a mental disorder with physical symptoms) surfaced in mainstream culture, I've been fascinated. I have an interest in hoarding that I find hard to explain to myself, since I've never seen it in my own family (we're mainly drunkards) nor among my friends (more victims of bad taste rather than hoarders.) I suspect it may be a reflection of my own "everything in its place, and I mean EVERYTHING, do I have to do everything around here myself? Were you raised by wild pigs?" mentality.
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