A review by embingham
Barefoot Heart: Stories of a Migrant Child by Elva Treviño Hart

1.0

I had to read this book for a college class. It wasn't awful, but I was annoyed by the constant repetition, contradictions, and the "woe is me" writing style of the author. She's always whining about how bad her life is, and how nobody cared about her or payed attention to her, but then she turns around a few pages later and talks about how she knows she was loved, and her family sacrificed so much for her. Perhaps its because I had just finished reading The Glass Castle, but I felt like shouting, "Would you quit your whining! There are a lot of people out there that have it a lot worse than you do!" Anyway, this is probably not a book I would recommend unless the topic is particularly fascinating to you.