At the End of Ridge Road (The Credo Series) Book

It's hard to feel much sympathy for someone who was born into family of privilege. But the author isn't asking for your sympathy. She simply lays out how it happened. She doesn't wring her hands or beg forgiveness for the infidelity and other bad behavior. She was born into a family of alcoholics, surrounded by a community of heavy drinkers and simply thought all that was completely normal.

There was lots of name dropping but since I didn't really care all that much who all these people were, I just let it kind of wash over me.

At the end she has a religious epiphany, but again, she's not telling you "that's how it is." Just this is how it is for me. I think her tone throughout the book is what kept me engaged when I was really disposed not to like her all that much.

It's the first book I've read by her -- although I have heard of her and her father. Short, sweet, and engaging.

I have to say her metaphor at the beginning of people hanging themselves with their hats on will stay with me. Reminds me a bit of Mad Men, how you could see that everyone was so desperately unhappy and repressed, yet equally determined not to ever deviate from their rigidly assigned social roles.