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Summary: blame game
Review: an interesting memoir that ultimately fails b/c it isn't honest. author seems to want to lay blame at somewhat ineffectual mother's feet for her and her sister's OWN worst decisions (dating men that beat them, prostitution, taking hard drugs, etc.) though the mother was smart enough to do neither. it's well-written and an interesting psychological study of the author in a way she probably didn't intend. chock full of lots of father glorification and beating up of the mother and no taking responsibility for one's own behavior, if you like that sort of thing.
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Summary: Another Dysfunctional Family
Review: I felt that this book is merely adequate in a sea of shocking tell-all dysfunctional family memoirs. The author would have been well advised to give the reader more insight into the childhoods of her parents. The brief information she does provide about her parents' past suggests that their lives were far more harrowing than the conditions in which the author and her sister are raised in. The story itself is fascinating and sad, but it is not particularly beautifully written and leaves the reader wanting more insight into the motivations of the two sisters (having a selfish mother is NOT a true motivation for everything that these two girls do). In general, I found the book interesting for its' gritty, anything goes characters and their soap operatic existences, but did not find the book to be of an important, enduring quality.
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Summary: So bad I couldn't finish it!
Review: This book got great reviews by professional book reviewers, but I really couldn't get past the first couple of chapters! Quite dull.
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