
Freckled
A Memoir of Growing Up Wild in Hawaii
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Narrated by:
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Sara Malia Hatfield
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By:
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T. W. Neal
For fans of The Glass Castle and Educated comes mystery author Toby Neal’s personal story of surviving a wild childhood in paradise.
We never call it homeless. We're just "camping" in the jungle on Kauai....
We live in a place everyone calls paradise. Sure, Kauai’s beautiful, with empty beaches, drip-castle mountains, and perfect surf...but we’ve been "camping" for six months, eating boiled chicken feed for breakfast, and wearing camouflage clothes so no one sees us trespassing in our jungle hideout. The cockroaches leave rainbow colors all over everything from eating the crayons we left outside the tent, and now a tractor is coming to scrape our camp into the river.
Standing in front of the tent in my nightgown, clinging to my sister as we face the tractor, I know my own truth: I just want to be normal.
But Mom and Pop are addicted.
Addicted to Kauai’s beauty, to drugs, to surfing, to living a life according to their own rules out from under their high-achieving parents’ judgmental eyes. I’m just their red-headed, mouthy, oldest kid. What I want doesn’t matter.
But I’m smart. I will make a different life for myself someday if I keep up my grades no matter what happens.
No matter how often we run out of food.
No matter how many times I change schools...or don’t go to school at all.
No matter how many bullies beat me up for the color of my skin.
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A 10 Star book!
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Insight into Hawaii in the 60's and 70's
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Great Memoir of old Hawaii
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Narration problem
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I have lived with these and similar people, in the same and similar places and times, and I can say that Toby tells her stories accurately and honestly, while brilliantly capturing the energy and essence of a whole era.
She manages to convey the joy and beauty and excitement coupled with the disappointments and terror and prejudice of those days. It is a compelling story and a historical phenomenon.
Not many people can tell a story from a child’s perspective, and maintain that perspective convincingly, as she grows up. Toni pulls it off beautifully.
I loved the narrator—she was perfectly attuned to every nuance of the story, even finding just the right pitch for the young author’s obnoxious screams of indignation.
Captures the Essence of an Era
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Great story telling
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Nice imagery of life in Hawaii despite human fails
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So inspiring!
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