Surviving Childhood

So, you think your family's dysfunctional? Below is a list of personal memoirs, and essays chronicling the struggles (and sometimes humorous exploits) of several survivors of difficult, and sometimes harrowing childhoods. After reading the titles below, you will want to count your blessings. Remember: it's all "relative"...

As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girl by John Colapinto (305.906 Col)

A Brother's Journey: Surviving a Childhood of Abuse by Richard B. Pelzer ( B PELZER)

Change Me into Zeus's Daughter: A Memoir by Barbara Robinette Moss (B MOSS)

A Child Called "It": One Child's Courage to Survive by Dave Pelzer (362.76 Pel)

Even Dogs Go Home to Die: A Memoir by Linda St. John (B ST. JOHN)

Finding Fish: A Memoir by Antwone Q. Fisher (B FISHER)
(Dramatized in a movie entitled "Antwone Fisher")

The Glass Castle: A Memoir by Jeannette Walls (New B WALLS)

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou (B ANGELOU)

The Liars' Club: A Memoir by Mary Karr (818.54 K)

Mommie Dearest by Christina Crawford (B CRAWFORD)

Running with Scissors: A Memoir by Augusten Burroughs (B BURROUGHS)
(Dramatized in a movie with the same title)

Sickened: The Memoir of a Munchausen by Proxy Childhood by Julie Gregory (B Gregory)

When Rabbit Howls by The Troops For Truddi Chase (616.852 C)

And finally, for some humor---

Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris (814.54 Sed)

The Other Great Depression: How I'm Overcoming, on a Daily Basis, at Least a Million Dysfunctions and Finding a Spiritual (Sometimes) Life by Richard Lewis (B LEWIS)