The Taste of Anger: A Memoir

“I’ll kill the first person who comes through this door.” My father grips a baseball bat in his meaty hands.

It is 1962 and Diane is three years old when her violent father moves their family—her, her pregnant mother, and her six siblings—to a remote farm in Upstate New York. There, she grabs the reader by the hand and takes them to the broken-down barns, barren fields, and rows of bunk beds in her rat-infested attic bedroom as she questions all that feels wrong about her new world. She watc...