You Could Make This Place Beautiful

This book was amazing. Lots of genre innovation for a memoir (repetition of key phrases and scenes, a device where the author imagines her imploding marriage as a play written by her husband years ago, etc.). The author sometimes seems angry with the readers for wanting to know the awful details of the story of her cruel husband and his kind of wacky decision to just take off on her and her kids. But in other places just really beautifully captures her pain and her growth. And doesn't justify one with the other or say it all happened for a reason or that they're better off even though it was difficult.