Would recommend: Probably

I read this book in two days, and I can enthusiastically say that it was compelling and a real page-turner. Jeannette Walls's stories about her childhood are unbelievable; that is, I was unable to believe them. In the same vein, I was utterly annoyed with her parents the entire time. The author and her siblings were awfully resilient and resourceful in the face of their circumstances, but I just wanted to slap her parents the entire time. To me, calling their family's hardships "adventures" seemed like pure evasion and disillusion.