The story is amazing with its openness, reality and plainness. In the same time it is complicated with its problems, social allusions and form. This is a memoir, a kind of confession of the author. She is a young and successful woman, but what’s her story, has she always been like that, has her outlook always been like that? Of course no. The story of her life is the story of constant struggle, she had a gift, she could tell you a story and you didn’t have any other option but to believe in each her word. But no one cared of it, her family was too poor to care about such things and she was growing up with a thought that she will never be like them, she will work as hard as no one does but she will never live like her family. And she worked, she studied well, had a good job but she was never satisfied with herself she worked harder and harder, in the end she understood that she is happy because she does what she likes and no one will stop her.
The narration is built in chronological order, the narrator visualizes the text with the help of pictures of her family, depicts it and her feeling about it. She expressed her thoughts about the world and her role in it, how everything is going and where she is going, the huge range of problems are highlighted in the story: “it packs an enormous amount of wisdom into its 94 pages, including thoughts on the intersections of family, class, poverty, abuse, lesbianism, and feminism, by riffing off the handful of precious certainties that Allison has gained from her life experience”.
This is a story of success through pain and sorrow. It teaches never give up and have patience because progress comes with time, and efforts, endless efforts.
