This book takes you through all the firsts in Roxanne's life, starting with pie and ending with her first child. Each chapter gives you a tiny slice of her world without ever telling you how she dealt with it. It is perfectly structured and equally frustrating because the author makes you care and then only doles out little pieces of what you want to know.
The author tried to cover a lot of subjects without every getting in-depth with any of them. It glances over racism, homosexuality, the death of her father, incest, drug addictions, and PTSD. The gaps between these two minute subjects are filled with Roxanne and her
family indulging in baked goods because "No one is on a diet in Annette TX" And ending with
recipes for whatever they ate in that chapter.
This book has enough light, feel good, fun moments to counter the drama sprinkled though it to make it totally readable no matter what kind of mood you are in.
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