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Review title: Funny and sweet but not without sadness too
Product review: I enjoyed this memoir of the life of a small town girl growing up in the 70's. It was certainly funny, poignant, and sharply witty. I did however come away with a fairly pervasive sense of underlying sadness. While I believe the author's childhood to be basically a happy one, there were certainly some elements of major dysfunction going on in this family (she devotes an entire section to the things her father has won and lost through gambling). It would also appear that her mother suffered from rather chronic depression (she spends most of the book on the couch reading). That being said it was obvious that the author was well loved by her family, and it's a pleasant change to read a memoir about childhood that isn't filled with pain and abuse.
