Dark at the Roots
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Sarah Thyre grew up as a middle child in a middle-class household in Louisiana, a position she found thoroughly unsatisfying. From an early age she developed ways to escape the identity she disliked, sometimes by borrowing someone else's, sometimes by fibbing about her own. She changed her name, invented a talent for the outdoors, and collected donations for a charity that turned out to be herself.
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Against that backdrop, the household was marked by fierce arguments between her parents and money worries that never seemed to go away. This memoir gathers the stories that came out of those years, told with a comic sense of how a child copes with a home that is often unsteady.
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