Book summary

In her second memoir, a painter writes about some of the staggering difficulties of a tumultuous life, including episodes of violence in her dirt-poor family, her father's drinking problem, her own attraction to destructive and abusive men, and--underlying everything--her determination to transcend it all by becoming an artist and transforming her troubled past into the material of her art.

Media reviews

"Moss does what you'd expect from a visual artist: she paints pictures with words....She mercilessly braids the gruesome beauty of [her] images with a hopeful message: survive."