~Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
Mental illness. Drug abuse. Hoarding. Cheating. Family secrets. Destructive behavior. Adversity. Violence. There are a lot of factors that can cause families to malfunction or self-combust. We've rounded up a list of memoirs by people, some famous and some not, who have grown up in dysfunctional families - how it impacted them, how they've coped, and the different ways they are living out their lives today. Check it out!
Chanel Bonfire: A Memoir by Wendy Lawless
The Good Daughter: A Memoir of My Mother's Hidden Life by Jasmin Darznik
Handbook for an Unpredictable Life: How I Survived Sister Renata and My Crazy Mother, and Still Came Out Smiling (With Great Hair) by Rosie Perez
She Left Me the Gun: My Mother's Life Before Me by Emma Brockes
Dirty Secret: A Daughter Comes Clean About Her Mother's Compulsive Hoarding by Jessie Sholl
Her Last Death: A Memoir by Susanna Sonnenberg
Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness by Alexandra Fuller
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? by Jeanette Winterson
The Mistress's Daughter by A. M. Homes
The Liars' Club: A Memoir by Mary Karr
The Glass Castle: A Memoir by Jeannette Walls
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel
Rescuing Patty Hearst: Memories From a Decade Gone Mad by Virginia Holman
The Three of Us: A Family Story by Julia Blackburn
Lies My Mother Never Told Me: A Memoir by Kaylie Jones
Mommy Dressing: A Love Story, After a Fashion by by Lois Gould
Circling My Mother by Mary Gordon
With or Without You: A Memoir by Domenica Ruta
What She Left Behind by Ellen Marie Wiseman
Astor Orphan: A Memoir by Alexandra Aldrich
Coming Clean by Kimberly Rae Miller
Glitter and Glue: A Memoir by Kelly Corrigan
Shocked: My Mother, Schiaparelli, and Me by Patricia Volk
