Helpful Score: 2
This "bright, funny and poignant" memoir [Publisher's Weekly] is fun to read and also inspiring. Buchwald overcome a lot of adversity in his life due to his mother's mental illness and his father's limited earning ability. He actually was inducted into the Marine Corps and made the most of it. Without preaching or offering gratuitious advice, he provides a model for all who aspire to make lemonade of the lemons in their lives.
