Complex sentence: Genie's father mostly grew up in various orphanages around the American Pacific Northwest, as his father died of a lightning strike and his mother ran a brothel, and his mother gave him a feminine first name which made him the target of constant derision.
Split into simpler sentences: Genie's father mostly grew up in various orphanages around the American Pacific Northwest, as his father died of a lightning strike and his mother ran a brothel. Furthermore, his mother had also given him a feminine first name which made him the target of constant derision.