Cover of Sweet Charlotte's Seventh Mistake

Sweet Charlotte's Seventh Mistake

In Sweet Charlotte's Seventh MistakeCori Crooks records her search for identity among the things left behind by her delinquent family, her deceased, drug-addicted con-artist mother, and her missing biological father. Told through old photographs, diary entries, letters, and the results of a mail-order DNA test, Cori pieces together a profound scrapbook that begins as a paternity search and becomes a chronicle of her mother's reckless life. A stunning visual memoir, Sweet Charlotte's Seventh Mistakeis an intimate look into one woman's unconventional family history.

Setting
USA
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 208 pages

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