If you've read and enjoyed The Glass Castle you might want to try Half Broke Horses, Jeanette Walls' story of her grandmother's life and her mother's childhood. Again, improbable, entertaining and told with a dry wit. In the same vein, The Prizewinner of Defiance, Ohio, by Terry Ryan, is the story of one woman's struggle in the fifties to support her family by writing advertising jingles. As my new bookmark says, don't judge a book by its movie; the book was delightful and the movie disappointing.
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