Kayleen (jegka) reviewed on 7/20/2012 + 162 more book reviews

This is the struggle of a girl to try to grow up loved when her most loved role-model, her mother, is incapable of providing love to the author or her many sisters.

From an incredibly young age, Terry is shuttled between her mother, her mother's family, her biological dad, the daddy she knew at home, and their families. Sisters were repeatedly divided, reunitied, and divided again. They moved twelve times in two years to dogde bill collectors. Through it all she remains loving, loyal and resiliant.

I was disappointed in a few of her decisions near the end, but we must remember, as mature as she seems, she was still only 18 years old. She never had a consistent model to learn from and she is away from the guilt and tyrany for the first time in her life. I am happy for her to have grown up without tremendous scars.

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