Wow. This one will stay with me for a while.
If you were engrossed with Educated (Tara Westover) Between Two Trailers will be equally as powerful.
Wow. This one will stay with me for a while.
If you were engrossed with Educated (Tara Westover) Between Two Trailers will be equally as powerful.
J Dana Trent grew up between two trailers, one in Indiana, the homeplace of her father and the other in rural North Carolina, her mother‘s home. Though her parents started out together raising their daughter, things quickly became untethered between the couple, as both suffer from mental illness.
This surely is dysfunctional—the book begins with Dana‘s memories at age 4, preparing drugs to sell for her father‘s employer. But hopeful in the end.
Dana‘s parents met in a mental hospital, and she was helping her dad bag drugs when she was barely out of diapers. She became overly attentive to her mother‘s frequent mood swings making sure never to rile her up.
This was a fantastic dysfunctional family memoir that addressed mental illness, addiction, and poverty. Dana treats her parents with empathy while holding them accountable for the difficult parts of her childhood.