When We Lost the House

About the Book

This is the tragic story of how Marie Hancock loses hers and the boyhood home of the author in the 1990’s near the beginning of the Housing Crisis in the United States. Through hiring illegal contractors and the conflict between J.E. Hancock and his mother, the story shows the incredible suffering involved in losing a home.

About the Author

J.E. Hancock was born in 1960 in sunny southern California, and lived in many places around there as he struggled to help and understand his mentally ill mother, who would drive him to temporary insanity. He would struggle for several decades dealing with his mother Marie who most everyone would tell him she was sick, yet he would struggle to help her until she would turn around and destroy his life and he moved to Arizona to start over.