Welfare Brat by Mary Childers

Mary Childer's and frank memoir tells the story of growing up in a family in which five out of seven children dropped out of high school and four different fathers dropped out of sight. While her mother's romantic charisma occasionally brightened their dim, roach-infested two-bedroom apartment, her alcohol-inspired moodiness and irresponsibility often left her children hungry and desperate. Determined to live differently, Childers finds refuge first in books and then in work. Self-sufficiency, she realizes, is her only reliable ticket out of Bronx neighborhoods increasingly characterized by arson, rampant crime, and racial conflict.

I think this book is very good so far, i'm not sure how this book will turn out but it is very sad. The preface and first chapter really draw me in because its sad and explains how she feels and how her life is as a young girl. The beginning really makes you want tor read more.