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I am in awe of someone who, despite all the challenges and disadvantages life could throw at her, could survive and rise far above. It also shows that not everyone who is homeless is the same, some actually choose to live like that. Or there is some level of mental illness that causes someone to live outside of social norms. Walls and her siblings rose above abject poverty and neglect to obtain educations and careers.
It's hard to believe people grew up the way Jeannette Walls did, and amazing that she got as far as she did in life instead of dying by being hit by a bolt of lightning while dancing in a thunderstorm barefoot in the desert or being bit by a rattlesnake while trolling around the trash pile in the back yard of their West Virginia home. Definitely an amazing story of fighting between loving and hating your parents, sometimes for the exact same reasons. Highly recommended to anyone.
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Sep 07, 2022
Kels Maddock
marked it as to-read
