Fierce: A Memoir

"Barbara Robinette Moss grew up in the red clay hills of Alabama, the fourth of eight children, in a childhood defined by close sibling alliances, staggering poverty, and uncommon abuse at the hands of her wild-eyed, charismatic, alcoholic father." "In Fierce, Moss looks at what happens when a child of such a family grows up. At once poetic and plainspoken, Moss paints a portrait of her persistent quest to reinvent her life and rebel against the rural indigence, addiction, and broken dreams she inherited from her parents." "As with many other children of alcoholics, the legacy of her father's alcoholism catches up with Moss, and an abusive relationship - an inheritance and addiction of its own sort - threatens to destroy all that she has accomplished. But as Moss learns to cope with her anger and pain, parenthood helps her discover true strength."—BOOK JACKET.