In her debut memoir, Treska describes a Boston comprised of working-class people who dreamed of better and often of the kind of escape promised by the long-defunct Wonderland amusement park. Treska's way out of the city and her peripatetic military family, plagued by mental illness and drug addiction, was through education. As the author explores the way class, place, and family shape identity and desire, she also celebrates her ability to accept, with ferocity and love, the painful past that made her who she was.
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