From a turbulent Gen X adolescence in St. Albert, Alberta, Show Home pulls back the glossy fa�ade of 1980s and 1990s whitewashed suburbia. Behind manicured lawns, luxury cars, and designer interiors were fractured families and a lack of adult supervision. Navigating her motherÕs mental illness, abandonment, dark family secrets, and the discovery of buried First Nations heritage, Wallace reckons with the erasure of bonds, memory, and identity. Throughout, friendships became lifelines. Raw, intimate, and unflinching, Show Home explores the courage to heal, confront shame, and break intergenerational cycles. ItÕs a coming-of-age story about reclamation and the enduring power of chosen family in the ruins of the show home collapse. Part memoir and part cultural archaeology, Show Home is a redemptive love letter to the Gen X adolescents who made it through., memoir, survival, adversity, St. Albert, First Nations, adolescence, Heather Wallace| | 290PAGES