This was a fun read. The author grew up in China Lake, a secret, restricted military installation where missiles were built, like the Sidewinder. It's an other worldly childhood, growing up and working in a town where everyone and everything is shrouded in confidentiality. Entertaining, chilling and touching. I got this as an advanced copy at the Nashville Festival of Books 2018.
Quotes:
[talking about the recruitment to Amway by Dick DeVos and the use of religious analogies] "His daughter-in-law, Betsy DeVos, would become US Secretary of Education and push for funding schools that use Accelerated Christian Education in order to 'advance God's Kingdom' ."
[When her sister goes into a coma after childbirth] "My sister held my memories in her brain. Even though she fought with me about what had or had not happened, without the fighting, no one would even care about those memories, what was true or unture, what was mine and what was hers."Published: 2018 Read: October 2018 Genre: Memoir
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