I have now finished this book and i found it very interesting. I thought that Jeannette had found her place in the world and would be spend the rest of her life with Eric in New York. However then her dad died and everything changed for her. Even though he was a horrible dad she still felt very sad and it drove her to leave Eric and to move. She also suddenly had the urge to stay on the move. When that finally died down she settled down in the country with John.
There was also the Moureen issue when she went crazy because of drugs and booze and stabbed her own mother. After she was arrested and sent to a correctional facility the whole family got into a whole fight over whose fault it was that this happened and that tore the family apart even more.
Overall I thought that the parents were horrible. The alcoholic dad that was never there for his kids. And the mother who is too focused on herself and her artwork that will never succeed to take care of her kids. the dad always used all the money for booze, don't get me wrong he had his moments where he was a great father, but there where very few. The mother also could get a job to support her family but she didn't want to. She could also have sold her million dollar land in Texas which would support the family for life and more. Both parents were very smart but never used it and really seemed like they just didn't care.
Even though they had horrible parents the kids still turned out great, well other than Moureen. Brian became a police officer which his dad of course hated, but he loved the job. Lori became a successful artist like the mother. And Jeannette became a good news reporter but eventually an author and wrote this book. Its amazing how kids of an alcoholic dad and a mom who doesn't care can turn out so great.
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