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This memoir reads like a novel. It satisfied so many of my hungers as a reader - travel and adventure, an engaging plot line, meaningful and palpable relationships, evocative settings and descriptions. And all the while, this sense of disbelief - "I can't believe this actually happened to somebody for real." The story is about a girl and her three siblings, trying to survive in a household with some of the craziest parents I've ever encountered in literature. Her father, from moment to moment, i
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Lisa of Hopewell
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