Courtney D. (luca74) reviewed Great book! on 10/7/2008 + 8 more book reviews

Helpful Score: 3

We read this as part of our book club and I was so excited to talk about it. Another member said she didn't like the book at all and thought the writing was "awful." I am normally much more open-minded to conflicting points of view, but have to admit - that bugged me! I LOVED this book and I really wanted others to like it too. My friend said she tried to make it sound like she had a worse off life than she really did. I didn't feel that way at all - this to me was a story about a woman just telling the truth about her life. And she didn't spare a detail. For as much as her parents made awful decisions that affected their children in often abusive ways, you could see that her parents (mainly her father) were just loving their kids the only way they knew how. I admire this author for telling her story and I very much enjoyed this book - I couldn't put it down from the moment I started reading it.

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