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Free Spirit : Growing Up On The Road And Off The Grid (2013)

by Joshua Safran(Favorite Author)

4.04 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

1401324606 (ISBN13: 9781401324605)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Hyperion

review 1: No matter how people seemed to enjoy this book, it is truly painful. No kid should be abused and abandoned as Joshua frequently was. He continually tries to make the best of things and concludes that "I received an unconventional and powerful education that taught me self-reliance, righteousness and empathy like no other," though he also states that he has done everything in his power to give his own children the stable, comfortable and secure childhood he dreamed of.
review 2: I keep reading about hippies and the counterculture, for which I have fairly fond memories from my own life, but it's pretty horrifying when I read memoirs from those more intimately involved. This memoir starts at a very young age and contains a lot of detail such a young child wouldn'... moret have noticed/understood/remembered. It's so negative, I almost didn't keep reading, it seemed like post hoc venomous propaganda. But then it gets more real and it's such a painful story of a child growing up with adults who won't be the adult. In the acknowledgements the author says he spent hours interviewing his mom and she let him use her journals to reconstruct events, which explains the unconvincing detail. I find myself wanting not to hear about all this but how he managed to transition to an educated responsible man who has relationship of love and respect for the mother who went through hell. Last year I read a book by a girl who spent years in the foster care system which seemed like hell, but I wanted to reach back to tell this boy that he could have asked for that because what he got was so awful it might have been better. less

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