Sixteen Doors

A memoir of trauma, identity, real estate, and the sixteen homes that shaped a life.

Sixteen Homes is a powerful, deeply personal memoir about the places we live, the memories we carry, and the past we try to outrun. Todd Michael grew up believing that survival meant staying quiet, staying small, and staying invisible. As an adult, he learned to run, toward achievement, toward success, and toward anything that felt like proof he was no longer defined by the t…