num_pages: 320
description: A coming-of-age memoir by a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who survived a tyrannical upbringing by her adoptive parents describes the fiercely religious belief system of her abusive mother her determination to acquire an education as a means of escape and the disadvantages that challenged her survival. 50000 first printing.
language: English
title: That Mean Old Yesterday: A Memoir
publisher: Atria Books