While reading this, I had to keep reminding myself that it was a memoir. The horrific things that Monica's father did to his family...at times I shuddered thinking "How did she live through it?" Monica's father was a total bastard (pardon my french) and was extremely cruel. He verbally and physically assaulted Monica, her mom and her brother and 2 sisters on a daily basis. Poor Monica wondered all of the time "why does Dad hate us so much?" Needless to say, after she and her siblings grew up, they suffered the effects of abuse; her brother Jamie was an alcoholic; her sister Jo Ann was suicidal and her other sister Becky was in denial.Monica's mother left her abusive husband while Monica was in high school. She went back to college and met another man. As Monica got older, her mother became less and less available to her and her siblings, emotionally and physically.While I enjoyed reading this memoir, reading about Monica's father was difficult at times. I admire her for writing Driving With Dead People. Although her story is emotional, it is also enriched with her stories of childhood friends, teenage years, and overcoming her traumatic past only to shine as an adult.

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