Guilford, CT: Lyons Press, (2003) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A story of growing up and surviving in a dysfunctional family, with an abusive father. When Sandra was eight, "her mother went to the hospital to give birth--only to return without the baby.For the next ten years, her family--with her alcoholic father at the helm and her mother battling depression--traveled across the country from West Virginia to California and back again in search of stability, each destination holding out the elusive promise of 'making it.'" SIGNED on the title page and dated 5-31-03 - in the year of publication. 455 pp. ISBN: 1-585748544.