Augusten Burroughs meets Mary Karr: a deeply funny and wickedly entertaining family memoir
The youngest of four daughters in an old, celebrated St. Louis family of prominent journalists and politicians on one side, debutantes and equestrians on the other, Jeanne Darst grew up hearing stories of past grandeur. And the message she internalized as a young girl was clear: While things might be a bit tight for us right now, it s only temporary. Soon her father would sell the Great American Novel and reclaim the family s former glory.
The Darsts uproot themselves and move from St....