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"With great tenderness, humor and compassion, the author writes of her hitting rock bottom and discovering her spiritual self and becoming a liberal Christian. The author writes of her relationship with family, with alcohol, with illness and you laugh constantly. Best book I've read this year."
k livesay, Resident Scholar
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Plot
Family, ill
Yes
Who?
- Father
because he/she is
- physically ill
Phys disability/mental struggle?
Yes
Struggle with
- religion
Subject of Biography
Gender
- Female
Profession/status:
- writer
Age:
- 20's-30's
Eccentric/Mental
Yes
Eccentric:
- eccentric
- wild
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
Ethnicity
- White
How sensitive is this person?
- soggy whimpering jelly muffin
Sense of humor
- Strong but gentle sense of humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other people
Physique
- average physique
Setting
How much descriptions of surroundings?
- 3 ()
United States
Yes
The US:
- California
Water?
Yes
Water:
- swimming on
Century:
- 1980's-Present
Style
Person
- mostly 1st
Accounts of torture and death?
- no torture/death
Book makes you feel?
- spiritual
Is book humorous?
Yes
If humorous, kind of humor
- eccentric personalities
- Dry-cynical
- sarcastic/sardonic
- gentle
Commentary on society?
Yes
Commentary on
- race
- decency
- wicked men
- dying
- religion
Writer's slant towards subject:
- very favorable
Story of entire life, or part?
- story of set of events during life
Autobiography?
Yes
How much dialogue in bio?
- significantly more descript than dialog
How much is philosophy rather than life story?
- 51-75% of book
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