Our club read this book and all of us were charmed by it. Jeanette Walls recounts her life's story of growing up hard scrabble with her thoroughly uncoventional itinerant parents. She tells the tale without a scrap of self pity but manages to make us all qestion how the children could survive the tumultuous years of life on the edge.

It is truly a story of triumph and proves that one's childhood does not always set the stage for success or failure in this life.