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Book Description
"Jeannette describes her childhood in poetic terms: playing among the coyotes, lizards, and feral cats of the desert towns in the American West, learning to find indigenous food and identify rocks and minerals in the landscape around her. Simultaneously, she and her siblings were busy surviving the capriciousness, alcoholic rages, and complete selfishness of her parents. She learned to mend shoes with safety pins, color her skin with markers so the holes in her pants wouldn’t show, and scrounge for food in the school lunchroom garbage cans. And she learned to be strong, independent, creative and even somewhat non-materialistic.
Amazingly, Jeannette’s memoir is not angry or bitter. Understandably, she loses patience with her parents’ inability to care for their kids, which frequently crossed the line from neglectful to outright abusive. But her ability to value her mom and dad’s eccentric life choices makes this autobiography completely unique among the “my parents were way more bizarre than yours” genre currently rampaging through bookstores.
This book has been nominated for the 2008 Evergreen award, which is decided by readers in grades 7-12. Participants must read 2 or more nominated books and vote for the best. The ballot for the Evergreen Book Award is located here: http://www.kcls.org/booksandreading/evergreenaward/booktalks/archives/artwork/Ballot%202008.pdf"
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