When the author was born, his mother did the unthinkable. She gave him a girl's name-Stacey.

But Stacey's name was just the first hurdle he'd face in his uphill climb from birth to manhood. He also had to deal with an entitled older brother, the hodgepodge of different men his mother was involved with, and the nomadic lifestyle he was forced to endure for five years. And to top it all off, his mother couldn't cook a decent meal to save her life.

Trailer Trash, With a Girl's Name is Stacey Roberts' lighthearted, often hilarious account of growing up in an unstable...