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No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
For fans of The Glass Castle and Educated, comes mystery author Toby Neals personal story of surviving a wild childhood in paradise.
We never call it homeless. Were just camping"in the jungle on Kauai...
We live in a place everyone calls paradise. Sure, Kauais beautiful, with empty beaches, drip-castle mountains, and perfect surf...but weve been camping"for six months, eating boiled chicken feed for breakfast, and wearing camouflage clothes so no one sees us trespassing in our jungle hideout. The cockroaches leave rainbow colors all over everything from eating the crayons we left outside the tent, and now a tractor is coming to scrape our camp into the river.
Standing in front of the tent in my nightgown, clinging to my sister as we face the tractor, I know my own truth: I just want to be normal.
But Mom and Pop are addicted.
Addicted to Kauais beauty, to drugs, to surfing, to living a life according to their own rules out from under their high-achieving parents judgmental eyes. Im just their red-headed, mouthy oldest kid. What I want doesnt matter.
But Im smart. I will make a different life for myself someday if I keep up my grades no matter what happens.
No matter how often we run out of food.
No matter how many times I change schools...or dont go to school at all.
No matter how many bullies beat me up for the color of my skin.
I might be growing up wild in Hawaii, but I have dreams Im going to reach, no matter how crazy things get.
*******THIS VERSION CONTAINS COLOR PHOTOGRAPHS AND IS PRICED ACCORDINGLY.*
An affecting and riveting chronicle of a singular childhood that evokes the contradictions of hippie utopian ideals in an unspoiled Hawaiian landscape long since lost.~Kirkus Reviews
"As much a meditation on inner strength as it is on family dynamics, T.W. Neal's gorgeous memoirFreckledisn't one to be missed. I read it two great gulps, and I can still see the palm fronds swaying above a girl who wouldn't give up. Highly recommended." - Rachael Herron, author ofFast-Draft Your Memoir: Write Your Life Story in 45 Hours
"Children live in unseen spaces created by contradiction.Freckledis a raw, compelling, and ultimately hopeful memoir of growing uphaoleon Kauai where the idyllic freedom to surf, climb trees, and play Barbies on the beach runs counterpoint to a reality of homelessness, food insecurity, prejudice, violence, and the need be the adult when parents can't.As outrageous as of some of the events may seem to outsiders, I know firsthand of the truth she speaks. A celebration of the best within each of us as well as a witness of both human frailty and resilience, T.W. Neal's memoir is a must-read."
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