Hardcover, 288 pages
English language
Published 2005 by Scribner.
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In the tradition of Mary Karr's "The Liars' Club" and Rick Bragg's "All Over But the Shouting," Jeannette Walls has written a stunning and life-affirming memoir about surviving a willfully impoverished, eccentric and severely misguided family. The child of an alcoholic father and an eccentric artist mother discusses her family's nomadic upbringing, during which she and her siblings fended for themselves while their parents outmaneuvered bill collectors and the authorities.
Subjects
- Walls, Jeannette
- Children of alcoholics -- United States -- Biography
- Children of alcoholics -- West Virginia -- Welch -- Biography
- Problem families -- United States -- Case studies
- Problem families -- West Virginia -- Welch -- Case studies
- Poor -- West Virginia -- Welch -- Biography
- Homeless persons -- New York (State) -- New York -- Family relationships