Review: Very uplifting
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 7, 2013
Having grown up in the rural south I am familiar with the sort of family life Douglas Wallace came from. From the ridicule of his classmates to the principal who backed them up against him, he seemed destined to fall into the same hard luck life that his mother and father before him had. As his family gained a new addition nearly every year and his father seemed unable to stick the same job for long, they never stayed in one place long, living in cheap rent houses or squatting in abandoned ones until they were forced to move on. Eventually alcoholism takes it's toll on the family, with beatings and abuse, and hunger is constant. I won't spoil it by telling more, but it is wonderful to read how Mr. Wallace emerged from the often bottomless trap of poverty to become the man he is today. This is a fascinating memoir and once I started reading it I couldn't stop turning the pages.