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Furthermore, the father’s disillusion with society and his lack of responsibility is just impressive. But the most surprising part to me is how much their mother went along with her father’s crap. They got their two younger siblings out as well. Slowly and surely her sister and herself came up with a plan and got out. You have the freedom to stay or try to get out. God gives us this amazing thing called “free-will”. I think the takeaway with this book is that no matter where you are from, you can overcome the cards that life dealt you. So to read her upbringing and the way that people were to her family in Welch didn’t surprise me too much. I’m sure that when Jeannette Walls comes back to West Virginia, its like playing a time loop.

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The movie had to retrofit the school, but most of the neighborhoods look exactly the same. So I went to college for a year in Huntington, West Virginia at Marshall University.ĭuring my freshman year, they also filmed We Are Marshall and much of the town stayed the same. But the slower paced life and staying only in the same exact place seemed to be the way of life. My senior year, I was 1/2 of a combined total of 10 mixed kids. While there were stupid kids who said stupid racist things, I never felt completely out of the ordinary until we started counting the minorities in our school off about 800 students. To be honest, I was the coffee in the creamer at my high school. I can say that with confidence that what she describes during her childhood is similar to what I saw with the exception of racism. It seems that even though there is a large age gap between us, the lifestyle in this state hasn’t changed. I’m not going to dive into my own issues or what have you during that time that I lived there, but I could relate to this book and how things just didn’t seem right. I know I ignored much of that from distant family members as I was a kid and my mom tried to keep me innocent to adult issues. As a kid, you don’t know much about these things, maybe ignore them like I did. Not trying to slander the area or families that I knew, but cases of sexual abuse, not knowing where my friends parents were or extreme alcoholism was definitely a thing. However, those who didn’t have some kind of education or opportunities, their lives were so similar to the lives described in her memoir. While our town was closer to Charleston, some families had better jobs and opportunities than the ones in Welch. I spent time in Sissonville, West Virginia and some of the aspects were very similar. I respect her for coming out about her family and the lifestyle that was of Welch, West Virginia.

Of course, she didn’t know that as a baby what she was going through was abuse until she got older. I’ve watched several of my friends quietly struggle with parents who were alcoholics, abusive in a variety of ways or just simply not present in their children’s lives. As kids, you don’t think that certain actions from your parents are wrong as that’s all you know.

Without spoiling the book, I must say Jeannette Walls and her siblings were so blessed to find a way out of abuse and neglect. Maybe because I’m from West Virginia and knew that this book would hit a little too close to home for me. I must say, it did take me a little bit to get into the book. So I finally finished the book! In between moving, starting a new job, getting adjusted to Texas as well as starting an Etsy shop, I finally was able to do it.