I don't exactly like memoirs and non-fiction books, but I decided to try this because so many people praised it. And I agree with them, I can't put it down! But the strange thing is I can not really pinpoint why I like it so much. If I had to guess it would be because its unbelievable. Sometimes so much that I wonder if the stories are actually true. Maybe this book attracts so many people because the family is so unusual, it reminds me of the shows, Jon and Kate Plus Eight and the 18 Kids and Counting. The families are so different from the norm that we can't help but be interested. Sometimes reading the awful things these kids needed to do made me cringe. I do wonder, because this is a memoir, how do people treat Jeanette Walls's parents? If someone knew them then read the book, what would they tell them? And did the parents read the awful things they did and feel remorse?
I also read this book, and i liked it a lot, and i'm also the type of person who hates memoirs. I think part of what might have attracted me was that its almost like fantasy in the fact that her family is unusual to a huge extreme. After all, a lot of times in fantasy the main character's family has a huge defect, like Jeannette's. However, I also like how tight together they are as a family. They all seriously love each other, and i think thats even more why I liked this book.
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