She was raised in chaos. Her father raised her and her brother in the same house as his rape victims. He did drug deals, beat his domestic partners and even allegedly killed a man while being hunted by the police. He taught them to hustle and they never forget it. It wasn’t the traditional childhood, even after they go to live with family. It only changed geography, nothing more. She was sexually abused and neglected and had no one to stand up for her. She grew into an adult and chaos followed. This is the story of the chaos that was both thrust upon her and that she caused to befall herself.
I have no doubt that being raised in that kind of environment warps your sense of right and wrong. I believe that you do the best you can with the skills you have and make many mistakes along the way. Most of us learn from those mistakes and never make them again.
Sadly, that is not the case for the author. Instead, she is proud of her mistakes and brags about them in bold terms. The book is chock full of self congratulation and brags, both humble and otherwise.
Spoiler Alert
She starts the book by way of an apology to the daughter she gave up for adoption at 13 after being abused by her cousin. It seems entirely sincere and makes the reader think that she is writing in an effort to make true amends. This is nothing more than a lie that she tells both herself and reader. The adoption allowed for some contact and she claims that the book is her way of doing it since she has never before been able to find the right words. Already I was confused. She could write to her daughter about anything but foregoes that opportunity over and over again.
She will become pregnant a total of 5 times in the course of the book. After the adoption of the first one, the others were her way of trying to keep a man. We all know how that goes in real life.
Speaking of opportunity, she never misses an opportunity to do the wrong thing. Never, not once. She writes about making good grades in school, her intelligence, her ability to make money, how caring she is toward those she loves but never hesitates to break the law, use drugs, get drunk, She gets legitimate jobs but never stays in them.
She also manipulates those around her with money. I have no illusions that she would argue against that but she definitely does it. She complains about her family and boyfriends/husband using her but as long as they need her money she gets to come off a sweet, caring person. Really, what she is doing is manipulating them into continuing to need her.
In the end, she finds God. I’m shocked I tell you! Shocked!! She then proceeds to preach at the reader in a rambling fashion, claiming that God is using her to spread the word. Unbelievably, she uses God as an excuse for telling a woman that she had been having sex with the woman’s boyfriend. I wouldn’t want to stand next to this woman in a lightning storm!
Can I recommend this book? Ummmm…No. It gets 1 egg because I don’t have an image with zero. It’s filled with errors in punctuation, language misuse and badly needed an editor to keep on target.
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