This is a memoir, recommended and loaned to me by my sister-in-law. It was a fun, quick read - I started in the car to the airport and finished before we came back from Vegas last weekend. The profanity is a bit much if you're sensitive to that - her father's an alcoholic and gets a little colorful in his rages.
I came away from the book most struck, admist the alcoholism, homelessness, and starvation, by the family's sometimes-devotion to reading and studying. Obviously I don't want to make my kids dig in school trash cans for food while I hoard chocolate bars, but I do like the idea of being a little more free, a little more expansive, in the things I learn myself and teach the kids.
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