The Good Times Are All Gone Now is a carefully researched memoir of a life, a town and a way of life by a skilled and talented writer. Julie Weston has a mastery of language that evokes compassion and empathy for the characters, their gains and losses. She shares a painful family history, her emancipation from that scene and her return. Ms. Weston's story shows the damage done to a community by powers intent on financial gain at any cost and the blind lack of knowledge of the people most cruelly More...

This book was ok. It is not one that I would have chosen for myself but it is interesting. It moved kind of slow.