Liz N. reviewed on 9/2/2007 + 9 more book reviews

Helpful Score: 4

A true story....that will keep you reading from page one to the end. It is a remarkable memoir of resilience and redemption, and a revelatory look into a family at once deeply dysfunctional and uniquely vibrant. When sober, Jeannett'es brilliant and charismatic father captured his children's imagination, teaching them physics, geology, and how to embrace life fearlessly. But when he drank, he was dishonest and destructive. Her mother was a free spirit who abhored the idea of domesticiity and didn't want the responsibility of raising a family.

This book definitely stirs so many emotions....anger at parents who have the means to provide their family, but choose not to and inspiration to the children who survived growing up in a family like this and go on to be successful.

Highly recommended.

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