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Ebook About For fans of The Glass Castle and Educated, comes mystery author Toby Neal’s personal story of surviving a wild childhood in paradise.We never call it homeless. We're just "camping" in the jungle on Kauai...We live in a place everyone calls paradise. Sure, Kauai’s beautiful, with empty beaches, drip-castle mountains, and perfect surf...but we’ve been "camping" for six months, eating boiled chicken feed for breakfast, and wearing camouflage clothes so no one sees us trespassing in our jungle hideout. The cockroaches leave rainbow colors all over everything from eating the crayons we left outside the tent, and now a tractor is coming to scrape our camp into the river.Standing in front of the tent in my nightgown, clinging to my sister as we face the tractor, I know my own truth: I just want to be normal.But Mom and Pop are addicted.Addicted to Kauai’s beauty, to drugs, to surfing, to living a life according to their own rules out from under their high-achieving parents’ judgmental eyes. I’m just their red-headed, mouthy, oldest kid. What I want doesn’t matter.But I’m smart. I will make a different life for myself someday if I keep up my grades no matter what happens.No matter how often we run out of food.No matter how many times I change schools...or don’t go to school at all.No matter how many bullies beat me up for the color of my skin.I might be growing up wild in Hawaii, but I have dreams I’m going to reach, no matter how crazy things get.“An affecting and riveting chronicle of a singular childhood that evokes the contradictions of hippie utopian ideals in an unspoiled Hawaiian landscape long since lost.” ~Kirkus ReviewsBook Freckled: A Memoir of Growing up Wild in Hawaii (Memoir Series Book 1) Review :
Just one beautiful line from FRECKLED, Toby Neal’s long-awaited memoir of growing up in the 1970s counterculture community of Kaua’i. This is the book that Toby Neal was born to write, and it’s the story that her friends and fans have been waiting to read for years. IT DOES NOT DISAPPOINT. It’s a story of idealistic, though self-absorbed young parents, trying to carve out a perfect life in paradise. It’s also the story of grinding poverty, failed dreams and heartbreaking love. All this from the perspective of a strong, intelligent child, whose personal resourcefulness saves her from simply falling, herself, into a life of substance abuse and desperation.Hearing bits and pieces of the story of her unusual childhood over the years, did not prepare me for the full picture of what Toby experienced and survived. When laid out chronologically, her story is nothing short of a page-turner.In her afterword, Toby describes the time and effort that were expended in order to bring this book to fruition. And yet, I read it in one day, because I had to know what god awful thing her family would chose to endure next.Good lord! Had this been a work of fiction, I’m pretty sure an editor would say, “Come on, give me a break. No one will believe the story of a family moving back and forth from Kaua’i to California, over and over and over, from one desperate situation to the next. Who does that to themselves? To their children?”And what an offbeat motif: the rebellious mouthy firstborn child, whose clear-eyed critique of her parents lifestyle means that her personal rebellion takes the form of seeking normalcy!The writing is beautiful, brutally honest and often soul-scorching.Toby acknowledges the influence of Don’t Let’s Go To The Dogs Tonight, and lovers of that memoir will, indeed, love this memoir. Thank you, Toby, for so generously sharing your life with us. Toby Neal has grown so much as a writer since her first Lei Crime novel and her prose is magnificent in this book. She describes small moments with such clarity and rare beauty, it's hard to walk away from her descriptions of the darkest side of paradise.That said, this was a difficult, often painful read for me. Toby's memoir of the first 18 years of her life is evocative yet grim. She has a way of describing things that put you right in the scene...but not scenes where the reader necessarily wants to be.Growing up in primitive, sometimes horrifying circumstances in verdant, seemingly magical Kauai, which in the 70s was pretty much untouched paradise. proved it was often anything but.Her parents are abusive in so many ways and there were times I wanted to punch them both in their reefer-smoking mouths. Reading Toby's remarkably detailed memories from the time she was about three, I am reminded of two other searing memoirs - Thor Heyerdahl's provocative Fatu-Hiva - Back to Nature and also Mandy Sayer's Velocity.As I read the book I was also reminded of the documentary Surfwise, one of the most searing I've ever seen. The father in that movie is a complete crackpot, too. He selfishly denied his many children so many things...reading this book brought it all back to me. Who doesn't fantasize about living off the grid? The reality is harsh and punishing and I cried more than a few times.Toby is an observer here but the pace and the shocking incidents are relentless. There isn't much lightness in this story but it it is inspiring. There are small moments of charm that make up for the awfulness of some her life experiences. You root for her from page one.It's not only her words and delightful use of language but descriptions that brought a smile to my lips as I read - some of the time. That her parents did nothing about her sexual molestation when she was a child is something I cannot get over.And yet, resilient Toby describes small moments with charm and grace. She forgives her parents. And as a reader I see where she got the inspiration for her character Lei Texeira.She describes a visit to Haleiwa as a dirt road with a bridge going over it. That she was there before we spoiled it all is both a gift and probably a great hurt to her. Haleiwa is so commercialized now it's tragic.She lived in the beautiful islands with its magic, rainbows and the underside of its belly is something I don't wish on anybody.Interestingly, she survives and thrives, and has a solid marriage and an astonishingly successful, varied career. I noted with interest that the female survivors from Surfwise also turned out to form strong marital bonds and to make amazing lives for themselves. I wish Toby nothing but the best. I will not forget her story for a long, long time. 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