Helpful Score: 4
I really enjoyed this book. It must have taken great courage to relive her childhood - a childhood of deprivation and neglect.
The author does a wonderful job of telling the story from the child's point of view. Her opinions and viewpoints subtly change as the years go by in the story and she gets older. I'm amazed at the kindness she shows her parents in retelling her story. There is little question that the parents are self-absorbed and a little crazy.
This book made me appreciate my own childhood, and maybe look a little more kindly on the less fortunate families I come in contact with. It also made me appreciate modern child protection agencies - for surely she and her siblings would be removed from such a disfunctional family today.
If you love memoirs from "ordinary" people, you'll enjoy this book.
The author does a wonderful job of telling the story from the child's point of view. Her opinions and viewpoints subtly change as the years go by in the story and she gets older. I'm amazed at the kindness she shows her parents in retelling her story. There is little question that the parents are self-absorbed and a little crazy.
This book made me appreciate my own childhood, and maybe look a little more kindly on the less fortunate families I come in contact with. It also made me appreciate modern child protection agencies - for surely she and her siblings would be removed from such a disfunctional family today.
If you love memoirs from "ordinary" people, you'll enjoy this book.
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