This is a really good book/memoir. The author touches on so much in her life that is really so very important and from a different perspective that it really makes you think. She grew up in Cleveland in a Catholic household and schools and at one point wanted to be a nun--like was thinking about this in high school when the convent she talked to suggested she first go to college. She went to a very Catholic college but struggled to fit in & this lead to a great trauma in her life--she was raped and then not supported in any way afterwards--just awful. Not sure if her bi-polar disease was kick started from this trauma or was hereditary and going to happen anyway but during her manic episodes they really screwed up her life. She eventually applied & got hired on at the local steel mill in Cleveland but had to get through the probationary period with crazy hours and crazy work. Just such a good read with the angles of Catholicism, politics/Trump, economy, rust belt, bi-polar and more, in the end seems like she is in a good place. No longer at steel mill but working/teaching at a university and writing this book. I hope there will be more books from her in future because I would like to read more.
There are no copies in PBS & no WL for this book but it is a keeper for me right now. Probably in my top 3 of the year at this point. I did finish this one at end of May but just now getting around to logging it in, was my final book finished in May.
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