I read Alexandra Fuller's memoir of growing up in Africa
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight a few years back and highly recommended it for anyone who was feeling sorry for themselves thinking they were a bad parent. Fuller's mom was atrociously neglectful---you can only shine in comparison. She's a drunk, the father is mostly absent, the kids are barely supervised and for some strange reason the kids still adore them.
The honesty with which Fuller wrote about the horrific parenting is absent in this next book. Apparently the mother is still alive and angry about how the first book portrayed her so Fuller spends the whole time back pedaling and tries to make the mother's selfishness and narcissism into just wacky lovableness. Too late for me to change my mind but maybe her mother might forgive her?
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