I'm not quite sure what to think of this book. The author has a variety of life experiences that are definitely valuable and interesting enough to put in a memoir. However, I don't necessarily think this one was executed all that well. The first quarter of the book sounded mostly like complaining rather than creating a narrative about her life. And the timeline was a bit hard to follow, as she would jump around from a story when she was 3 to 6 to 12 to 2 to 15 to 5 to 12 etc etc and it was again hard to understand the narrative from start to finish. This improved in the later half, especially as she started to include moments in which she was drawing conclusions or discussing life lessons learned based on her life experiences - these were my favorite parts, and I wished the book was like that from start to finish rather than only in the second half. The author has a lot valuable to say about womanhood and motherhood and addiction and poverty and generational trauma in this book; it is a slow read but potentially worth it if these are topics of interest to you as a reader.