It was pretty interesting. Lily Casey Smith seems to have led an interesting life. Of course, it's hard to tell what is fiction and what isn't. I'm sure much of it was intended to be non-fiction, but I know at least the section about the "Mormon" community where she taught has to be fiction. If she taught a polygamist community in the 1930s, they were NOT Mormon because the Church stopped polygamy in 1890. They might have been a fundamentalist group, but it's still fishy since it was illegal. And even if they were fundamentalist, their practices were nothing like Mormon groups ever did when we practiced polygamy. Young girls were never arranged to marry older men, and it wasn't even all men who had multiple wives. I think Jeannette Walls was just trying to make a lot funnier situation out of something based on hearsay. Otherwise, it was a pretty interesting book. Even before the polygamist chapter, though, my interest was waning because it's entirely character-driven and not at all plot driven, and I tend to prefer good plots.