Really catches your interest at once. A great story about a young girl maturing and following her own way under the thumb of an oppressive and religious mother.
Helpful Score: 2
I'm not a Winterson fan, but this book is very engaging. Semi-autobiographical story.
Helpful Score: 2
Of course Winterson has been hailed with prize after prize, and also an OBE, for her writing. Here is an autobiography that will amuse and fascinate in that deep resonating way that few authors have (Nic Pizzolatto is another) of slipping us noiselessly into the narrative where we remain until the end. Her youth as the daughter of evangelists is fraught with both tension and light hearted forays into the lives of the characters that surrounded her fervor and final alienation. Winterson is nothing short of brilliant.
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"If Flannery O'Connor and Rita Mae Brown had collaborated . . . ."
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A girl breaks away from her extremely religious background to find herself, and in so doing, coming to terms with her past.
