ISBN-13: 9781958506554
A PEOPLE magazine pick, Best Books Fall 2023A breathtaking memoir about surviving a horrifying childhood; Means...transforms memories...into a work of art. Starred review from KirkusThis book is an outstanding debutA harrowing and soulful memoir to be read, savored, and reread."Brittany Means has pieced together the shards of a devastating childhood in this powerful memoir. Its gut-wrenching but at the same time triumphant, harrowing yet exquisitely told. Hell If We Dont Change Our Ways is a story of survival that left me choked up and cheering.Jeannette Walls, author of The Glass CastleThe book's lasting impact might be what it demands of the memoir genre. Brittany Means has, at once, created the most readable and the most psychologically rigorous book I've read in decades. I needed the reminder that art can do this.Kiese Laymon, author of HeavyI cant write a story about myself as the sad, quiet child of two drug addicts. Thats not how it was, even when it was. To me, sleeping in the car was normal. Better, it was comfy and fun. I loved my bed made of clothes inside a trash bag that I sank into slowly like Uncle Fester from the Addams Family movie. . . . I loved the motels and their swimming pools and trashy daytime TV channels. . . . Nobody could tell us what to do. Brittany Meanss childhood was a blur of highways and traumas that collapsed any effort to track time. Riding shotgun as her mother struggled to escape abusive relationships, Brittany didnt care where they were goingto a roadside midwestern motel, a shelter, or The Barn in Indiana, the cluttered mansion her Pentecostal grandparents called homeas long as they were together. But every so often, her mom would surprise herand leave. As Brittany grew older and questioned her own complicated relationships and the poverty, abuse, and instability that enveloped her, she began to recognize that hell wasnt only the place she read about in the Bible; it was the cycle of violence that entrapped her family. Through footholds such as horror movies, neuropsychology, and strong bonds, Brittany makes sense of this cycle and finds a way to leave it. While untangling the web of her most painful memories, Brittany crafts a tale of self-preservation, resilience, and hope with a unique narrative stylea sparkling example of the human ability to withstand the most horrific experiences and still thrive.
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ISBN-13: 9781958506554
A PEOPLE magazine pick, Best Books Fall 2023A breathtaking memoir about surviving a horrifying childhood; Means...transforms memories...into a work of art. Starred review from KirkusThis book is an outstanding debutA harrowing and soulful memoir to be read, savored, and reread."Brittany Means has pieced together the shards of a devastating childhood in this powerful memoir. Its gut-wrenching but at the same time triumphant, harrowing yet exquisitely told. Hell If We Dont Change Our Ways is a story of survival that left me choked up and cheering.Jeannette Walls, author of The Glass CastleThe book's lasting impact might be what it demands of the memoir genre. Brittany Means has, at once, created the most readable and the most psychologically rigorous book I've read in decades. I needed the reminder that art can do this.Kiese Laymon, author of HeavyI cant write a story about myself as the sad, quiet child of two drug addicts. Thats not how it was, even when it was. To me, sleeping in the car was normal. Better, it was comfy and fun. I loved my bed made of clothes inside a trash bag that I sank into slowly like Uncle Fester from the Addams Family movie. . . . I loved the motels and their swimming pools and trashy daytime TV channels. . . . Nobody could tell us what to do. Brittany Meanss childhood was a blur of highways and traumas that collapsed any effort to track time. Riding shotgun as her mother struggled to escape abusive relationships, Brittany didnt care where they were goingto a roadside midwestern motel, a shelter, or The Barn in Indiana, the cluttered mansion her Pentecostal grandparents called homeas long as they were together. But every so often, her mom would surprise herand leave. As Brittany grew older and questioned her own complicated relationships and the poverty, abuse, and instability that enveloped her, she began to recognize that hell wasnt only the place she read about in the Bible; it was the cycle of violence that entrapped her family. Through footholds such as horror movies, neuropsychology, and strong bonds, Brittany makes sense of this cycle and finds a way to leave it. While untangling the web of her most painful memories, Brittany crafts a tale of self-preservation, resilience, and hope with a unique narrative stylea sparkling example of the human ability to withstand the most horrific experiences and still thrive.
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