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Available
Publication
Houghton Mifflin (1997), Edition: First Edition, 257 pages
Description
The memoirs of senior NPR correspondent Jacki Lyden growing up in a small Wisconsin town during the sixties.
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LibraryThing member bongo_x
An interesting book that had me hooked despite problems with the writing.
The story of her mother’s mental problems and their relationship is interesting, but the narrative wanders all over the place, and there are frequent patches of purple prose. In the end, I didn’t learn as much as I wanted
Like a few other books I’ve read recently, the first chapter is a complete jumble of times, events, and thoughts, and is hard to get through. It gets better after that or I’m not sure I would have kept reading. There must be instructions somewhere telling authors to cram as much information as possible into the first chapter to hook the reader. It’s not working, or the lesson is being corrupted somehow.
The story of her mother’s mental problems and their relationship is interesting, but the narrative wanders all over the place, and there are frequent patches of purple prose. In the end, I didn’t learn as much as I wanted
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to. I don’t know if that was an accident of the writing, or if she was holding back. It’s her life, I guess she can tell the story any way she wants. Like a few other books I’ve read recently, the first chapter is a complete jumble of times, events, and thoughts, and is hard to get through. It gets better after that or I’m not sure I would have kept reading. There must be instructions somewhere telling authors to cram as much information as possible into the first chapter to hook the reader. It’s not working, or the lesson is being corrupted somehow.
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LibraryThing member BookConcierge
This memoir of living with a bi-polar mother was just too difficult to get through. I had read [The Glass Castle] earlier in the year and found that more to my liking. I didn't finish this book
LibraryThing member PleasantHome
A difficult but insightful personal tale of dealing with mental illness.
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Original language
English
Physical description
257 p.; 6 inches
ISBN
0395765315 / 9780395765319