Welfare Brat (Paperback) by Mary Childers

from lildrafire

Growing up in my own version of rural poverty, I was anxious to compare Mary Childer's childhood to my own. We are, within a few years, close to the same age, so I concluded that our stories might be similar. I couldn't have been more off the mark. The urban setting changes everything. Growing up...

from ursula

The author grows up in a stereotypical welfare family in the '60s. Her mother doesn't seem to have much interest in working, she and her siblings have various fathers they've never known, and there's never enough money for anything. The story is sometimes sad, sometimes funny, sometimes inspirati...

from TimBazzett

This is a real bootstrap story that keeps you turning pages wondering how in the hell a woman who grew up in this way could possibly have lived to write a book about it. But Mary Childers did just that, and she tells her story in a compelling, plain spoken manner that keeps you turning the pages....

from TimBazzett

This is a real bootstrap story that keeps you turning pages wondering how in the hell a woman who grew up in this way could possibly have lived to write a book about it. But Mary Childers did just that, and she tells her story in a compelling, plain spoken manner that keeps you turning the pages....