While not for those with delicate constitutions, Bastard Out of Carolina is the most perfectly written book I've read to date. It is dirty and dark and hard and gut-wrenching. My mama had a childhood devastatingly similar to Bone's and I can't even fathom the where-with-all it took Ms Allison to so accurately detail such an experience. Therapy, alcohol, drugs, institutionalization... Any of these would be a reasonable reaction to The kind of childhood detailed in Bastard Out of Carolina. I'm thankful Dorothy Allison channeled her experience into a novel that deserves every literary award known.
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