I found the dialect difficult to plow through in written form. A review I read suggested the "books on tape" version, which I obtained. The readers were fantastic in rendering the Southern dialects. This book seems to capture the1960's in the South (As a Northerner I can only presume) and a woman's life before "liberation."

This book gives the reader insight about the juvenile justice system and the children who come under its jurisdiction. Unless readers have some connection to the system, they will be surprised by the depth of the problems faced by some children in our society, many of whom are products of disrupted, chaotic families.Judge Sullivan discusses some hopeful solutions. It is truly a problem for all of us who live in our society, not just the neglected and abused (and abusing) young people.

disjointed and repetitive narrative.
relies on his "authority" as a neurosurgeon to believe what he proclaims, without any true evidence whatsoever.