![]() I was lucky that my grades and SAT’s afforded me the ability to enroll at Portland State University, where I was able to get loans and scholarships so I could live in a dorm. ![]() This left me without a place to turn, so I was living on the streets in Portland. When I found one of my adult relationships was with someone emotional and fiscally abusive, I chose to leave him. So many people face domestic violence, and often when the victims are able to leave, they are faced with a world that is unreceptive of them, like Mattie’s family who found themselves living in their vehicle, “Ruby.” My whole life was uprooted, and I was living in a room with my mother and brother trying to share a single bed until we were able to find a home. After he left, while on a visit to my aunt’s for Easter, our home mysteriously burned down. ![]() To this day, it still emotionally impacts my mother and me. Not to expand too deeply into details, my birth-father was exceptionally physically and sexually abusive to myself and my mother until at age five I went to the police. Starting with domestic violence, I’ve faced this as a child growing up. I have faced all of these categories within my life, and I felt the emotional impacts were captured to the letter. What made this book, so heartbreaking was the relatability to it. college, and the constant strife of seeking perfection to better one’s life. This book handles a lot of critical issues that our youth currently face including, but not limited to domestic violence, homelessness, income vs. “Sleeping in my Jeans” by Connie King Leonard was a heartbreaking YA book about the struggles that impoverished family face, especially when they become homeless.
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