Lynn A. reviewed on 7/7/2010 + 2 more book reviews

I tried, but the author's credibility kept stretching and stretching until it finally fell apart when I got to the page where she describes her dying, frail, cancer-ridden grandmother, just home from her hospital stay for a leg amputation, who torments the children by sneaking up on them in her stealthily silent wheelchair--which grandma keeps that way by flipping it over to oil it. Oh, and cancer-ridden grandma also quaffs a case--yes, 24 cans--of beer a day. Really? Enough already. It would be fine if this were just a book of humor, but it's billed as a "moving memoir," an "unsparing portrait of her struggle through a fractured childhood."

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