The story depends on the appearance of male dominant Victorian society and the reality of emotional abandonment, so Sarah Janet Duncan's Indian mother's parents Victorian men are 706-character Indians of stubborn Victorian women I created my mother. The point of Duncan is that Victorian men made the Victorian women terrible. Due to the long-standing separation with his father, the relationship between Helena and the emotional value between her daughter Cecily became impossible.
This book starts with Jeannette Walls, our heroine who became an adult in a New York taxi. When I rented a car with Janet to participate in the company's activities, she looked out the window and saw her mother looking for something to eat in the trash can. She knew that her mother was homeless for many years, but this scene returned Janet to her poor childhood. The first memory of Janet's visit was when she tried to heat the dog with a stove when she was 3 years old. She was too close, the pink dress she was wearing suddenly burned and it burned badly. She spent a few days at the hospital, then her father appeared, pulled her up from her bed and sneaked out of the hospital secretly so that they did not have to pay the bill. This is the first example that Janet recalls "Skedaddle" because her father's alcoholism and delusions left the family to avoid payment and troubles.
Janet Wals is the second oldest of the four children. Her father, Rex is an alcoholic, her mother is Mary Mary, she is a painter and a teacher. When Janet was 7 years old, the family moved to Battle Hill, Nevada. So Rex worked at a mining company and his family lived in a refurbished station. Eventually Lex lost his job and the children became hungry. Rose Mary who has a certificate of education taught at a local school, but Rex quickly received her salary. Even so, the family was still happy until the little boy fixed Janet and attacked her with BB gun while the children were at home alone. Janet's older sister, Lori recovered his father's pistol and frightened him, but the police were summoned and Rex and Rosemary flew to Phoenix, Arizona when they learned that children could be taken away I decided.