You Are Priceless

Set in Los Angeles in the 1970s, this memoir details the author's childhood growing up in the foster care system and winding up in the home of an alcoholic pedophile. The author explores her development, showing strength, resilience and humor but also her inevitable emotional damage. She depicts her care takers as complex human beings who along with doling out of routine, horrific sexual abuse instilled a sense of discipline and ambition.