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Jan 17, 2010
Sunflower
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Anyone who thinks they got a bad deal with their parents should read this book. This book is a memoir of a childhood with parents who were neglectful, selfish, and even abusive at times, yet the author never portrays them as anything worse than eccentric. She puts a positive spin on them, and on their life as a family, during which they were so poor that the children were more often hungry than not, wore threadbare clothes and shoes, and lived in the worst of circumstances.
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Mar 22, 2011
Andrea
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I saw this book earlier on a best-selling list.. and was open to reading it until I saw what it was about. It sounds too similar to my life for me to want to be interested in it (except for the whole 'love for the parents' thing.) But now, a couple of people have told me that I really should read it. And I still really don't want to. I see nothing appealing in a family that moves everywhere, a mother that does nothing, a father who is gone except in those rare moments that he teaches the kids am
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Fantastic (but not always positive nor happy) story of life with an adventure loving but alcoholic Father and hippy-ish Mother. As has been said before, what is most remarkable is that the author always writes with love and respect about her parents who, driven by demons I don't thoroughly understand, often made terrible, selfish choices that could have destroyed all of their children.
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Phenomenal read, and remarkably absorbing. One of the first books I've read in a while that was hard to put down. I can't wait to read her Wild Horses book next.
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Very difficult and disturbing to read at times. Like a train wreck you can't look away from. Yet, a tribute to the power of survival.
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Connie
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it was amazing
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