Wow. Just...wow. Just a friendly reminder that this is a MEMOIR which makes it non-fiction. This is real life, people. I picked up this book having no idea what it was going to do to me. And it had me feeling all of the emotions. Anger, frustration, denial, sadness, hopelessness, pride, satisfaction. I cried at least 5 times. At the end I just closed it and cried it made me feel so much emotion.

Jeannette Walls tells her story with such eloquence and beauty. I read it so quickly because I couldn't put it down. She tells us the story of growing up poor in America with no fluff. She doesn't tell you whether what happened to her was good or bad. She adds no post-hoc psychoanalysis of her childhood. She tells it to you like it was - like it is. It's disquieting as a reader to be treated so frankly. But it tells her story in such an honest way. And, I have to admit, it tells us so much about human adversity and the human mind.

Thank-you for this beautiful literary work. Thank-you for your story.