Title: Sweet Charlotte's Seventh Mistake
First published: 2008
Description: Sweet Charlotte’s Seventh Mistake, is a collection of essays, poetry, vintage images, art, and documents that tell of the complex relationship Crooks had with her dead, drug addict, con-artist mother. Throughout the memoir, Crooks comes to terms with her past as an abandoned child, and explains the losses of her 6 older siblings while discovering the true identity of her own biological father. All of these haunting elements combine to tell a multi-layered story about identity, grief, and the consequences of truth.
Subjects: Family, Problem families, Dysfunctional families, Women, biography
Places: United States
People: Cori Crooks
LC classification: CT275 .C887455 A3 2008