Would recommend: No

Such a disappointment after A Girl Named Zippy! I loved the essays about the author's mom so much --- how she figured out how to go to college, get a driver's license, get a master's degree, get a teaching job --- but all of the other stuff was just filler to me. If the whole thing had been about the mother, I think I would have loved it, but everything else dragged. It took me way too long to finish this one.