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Oh man, I've been meaning to read this book for years, and I finally got around to it not a moment too soon. This memoir is equal parts devastating, heart-warming, cathartic, and agonizingly depressing. From scenes of roaming the American Western desert littered with lizards and iron pyrite to scenes of cold rains water clogging the only wood available to heat a shack in West Virginia - the author's depictions of her childhood sound more like fantasy rather than reality. On one hand, I can't rea
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Jeannette led quite the adventurous life. It surprised me to find myself sometimes (not often, but sometimes)envying her life. Her parents were always ready to pull up stakes and move on when things (like payments due) demanded it. Her parents were certainly ecclectic, but so knowledgeable. Her mother sounds bi-polar and her father was clearly an (abusive)alcoholic, but when her parents weren'nt in the midst of their mental illnesses they were busy orchestrating an eventful life, moving on from
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Walls writes concisely and without self-pity--the result is an incredible memoir of a sympathetic storyteller. I couldn't put it down--I had to find out what would happen next.
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