The subtitle and jacket description of this book make it sound like it’s a story of how the author tracked down and got to know her 35 genetic half siblings. But only the last 25% of the book even addresses that. The rest of the memoir is about the turbulent childhood the author endured at the hands of her loving but dysfunctional, alcoholic mother. The stories are well told, but I’ve read several other memoirs about difficult childhoods, and I was hoping to read something entirely different.