- Paperback: 336 pages
- Publisher: Sceptre (22 May 2006)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 034089881X
- ISBN-13: 978-0340898819
- Product Dimensions: 21.2 x 13.4 x 3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,241,451 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"* 'Reads like a novel and lingers in the mind.' - Kirkus Reviews * Quirky, frank coming-of-age memoir... that reflects a painful time with wit and insight. - Publishers Weekly * She looks at the world around her through an exacting eye, but that same honesty is turned on herself. Yet she never sneers at the strange people she met, even the bullies at the nightmarish school she attended. An innate sweetness breathes through it, a hard-won caring for all the vagaries of human nature, that transcends the harrowing bits, the sad bits, and the very funny bits as well. Highly recommended - probably the best memoir I've read this year. - A reader/reviewer, Amazon.com * Rachel Brown's story is hilarious, heartbreaking and anything but typical. This is a memoir in the darkly comic tradition of Don't Lets Go to the Dogs Tonight and Running With Scissors, but it is also totally unique. Enjoy! - A reader/reviewer, Amazon.com * 'One of Fall's most promising memoirs' - USA Today"
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'This plucky and witty memoir reads like a compelling novel' -- Daily Telegraph 20060707 'A vivid travelogue, frequently wise and very funny' -- Daily Mail 20060609 'Reads like a novel and lingers in the mind.' -- Kirkus Reviews 20060609 'Quirky, frank coming-of-age memoir... that reflects a painful time with wit and insight.' -- Publishers Weekly 20060609 'Horrific childhood: check. Searing, indelible prose: check. Comparisons to Augusten Burroughs' Running with Scissors: check (and they're richly deserved).' -- Entertainment Weekly 20060609 'One of Fall's most promising memoirs' -- USA Today 20050914
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This book is brilliant from start to finish. Easy to read, even though it's about a difficult childhood, Rachel Manija Brown has written it so that it's not difficult to read. She even manages to make it humorous. With so many good books, I sometimes find the ending a little disappointing but not this one, it left me with a smile on my face.
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