I’ve read a lot of these memoirs written by people who had messed up childhoods, in one way or the other. Many share characteristics, usually an unhinged mother, but there’s always a new focus that keeps me coming back for more. In Swallow the Ocean, Laura Flynn recounts her childhood growing up with two sisters and a schizophrenic mother. Laura was in the position of her mother’s “golden child” for most of her life, while her mentally unbalanced mother took out most of her anger and […]