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Change Me Into Zeus's Daughter

Barbara Robinette Moss

Hardcover | Pages: 320 pages

Rating: 4.02 | 2395 Users | 214 Reviews

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Title	:	Change Me Into Zeus's Daughter
Author	:	Barbara Robinette Moss
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 320 pages
Published	:	September 12th 2000 by Scribner Book Company
Categories	:	Autobiography. Memoir. Nonfiction. Biography. Biography Memoir

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A haunting and triumphant story of a difficult and keenly felt life, "Change Me into Zeus's Daughter" is a remarkable literary memoir of resilience, redemption, and growing up in the South. Barbara Robinette Moss was the fourth in a family of eight children raised in the red-clay hills of Alabama. Their wild-eyed, alcoholic father was a charismatic and irrationally proud man who, when sober, captured his children's timid awe, but when (more often) drunk, roused them from bed for severe punishment or bizarre all-night poker games. Their mother was their angel: erudite and stalwart -- her only sin her inability to leave her husband for the sake of the children. Unlike the rest of her family, Barbara bore the scars of this abuse and neglect on the outside as well as the inside. As a result of childhood malnutrition and a complete lack of medical and dental care, the bones in her face grew abnormally ("like a thin pine tree"), and she ended up with what she calls "a twisted, mummy face." Barbara's memoir brings us deep into not only the world of Southern poverty and alcoholic child abuse but also the consciousness of one who is physically frail and awkward, relating how one girl's debilitating sense of her own physical appearance is ultimately saved by her faith in the transformative powers of artistic beauty: painting and writing.

From early on and with little encouragement from the world, Barbara embodied the fiery determination to change her fate and achieve a life defined by beauty. At age seven, she announced to the world that she would become an artist -- and so she did. Nightly, she prayed to become attractive, to be changed into "Zeus's daughter," the goddess of beauty, and when her prayers weren't answered, she did it herself, raising the money for years of braces followed by facial surgery. Growing up "so ugly," she felt the family's disgrace all the more acutely, but the result has been a keenly developed appreciation for beauty -- physical and artistic -- the evidence of which can be seen in her writing.

Despite the deprivation, the lingering image from this memoir is not of self-pity but of the incredible bond between these eight siblings: the raucous, childish fun they had together, the making-do, and the total devotion to their desperate mother, who absorbed most of the father's blows for them and who plied them with art and poetry in place of balanced meals. Gracefully and intelligently woven in layers of flashback, the persistent strength of Barbara Moss's memoir is itself a testament to the nearly lifesaving appreciation for literature that was her mother's greatest gift to her children.

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Original Title:	Change Me into Zeus's Daughter: A Memoir
ISBN:	074320218X (ISBN13: 9780743202183)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	Alabama Author Award for Nonfiction (2002)

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What a powerful memoir of a truly harrowing childhood. Before GLASS CASTLE, there was this. Barbara Moss was one of eight children raised in abject poverty by a drunkard of a father and an inegmatic mother who, by not protecting herself and her children, seemed to condone the abuse: "She seemed to crave him as much as he craved alcohol." Barbara suffered physically for her neglect and malnutrition: Her teeth and face were disfigured, causing her more emotional suffering.The writing here is

In a similar voice to Jeannette Walls' "The Glass Castle", "Change Me into Zeus's Daughter: A Memoir" is an autobiography about the tragic early life of the author and her family living in poverty and the spirit, tenacity and resiliency she had in ultimately being able to transform her life in adulthood. At times heartbreaking and horrifying, Barbara Robinette Moss has left me wanting to hear more details, particularly about her later years, that were only briefly described here. Luckily, I can

this is the original "the glass castle." not to detract ANYthing from jeanette walls' reality, one hell is as hideous as another when you're a kid--it's all just fucking hot, but this just blew me away. i teared up a few times--sobbed once. a painful start to life for such small, innocent, vulnerable creatures--it makes me so thoroughly disappointed in my species. but what a determined soul barbara is--there are those that fight, those that flee, and those that fall down where they are caught

This memoir reminded me a lot of The Glass Castle. Barbara was born into a family of an alcoholic and abusive father, stoic and poetic mother, and lots of kids. They were impoverished in the South, and Barbara lived with a face that she likened to a mummy - twisted with malnutrition and tooth decay. It amazes me that any of them survived, but survived they did, and luckily, Barbara knows how to tell a story! Our book club enjoyed talking with amazement and sometimes horror about what this family

I picked this up because Amazon recommended it to me because I had read The Glass Castle. I had also read some reviews and people compared it a lot to Glass Castle. This book is a little choppy. Unlike The Glass Castle, which somewhat goes in order of the narrator's life...this book jumps around a lot. Each chapter is not connected to the one before or after. Barbara's father was a crazy alcoholic and everyone in the family was afraid of him. Barbara had a disfigured face that left her feeling

This is not a typical autobiography but rather the telling of things that the author and her brothers and sisters experienced growing up. I would have enjoyed it better had the stories been written in a sequential order but they were not. Still, it was an interesting book and quite a testimony to the strength of the human spirit as well as the desire to love our parents no matter what. The living conditions and poverty that an alcoholic father and codependent mother lived with and thrust upon

Reading this book made me extra thankful for my wonderful parents and all they provided to me and my brothers.