![]() They were loving but volatile: Both his grandmother and grandfather had problems with alcohol, and his grandmother was sometimes verbally abusive. ![]() The young Jarrett, unaware of his mother’s illness and imprisonment, went to live with his grandparents. She would be in and out of custody for the rest of her life. Addicted to heroin, she struggled to take care of Jarrett and was sent to jail and then to a halfway house. ![]() Leslie was the second of the couple’s five children, and she got pregnant with Jarrett when she was still in high school. Beginning and ending with stories of Jarrett as a teenager in the 1990s, the book dips back into his family history, retelling the high-school romance of his grandparents, Joe and Shirley, and the painful life of his mother, Leslie. ![]()
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