Well, this was an interesting read. Mary Anna King — born second to a family of seven — grew up watching her mother give away sister after sister, as she and her brother grew up in poverty. Born second in a family that would eventually number seven, Mary didn’t finish meeting all of her siblings until she was attending college. Mary and her older brother watched their grandparents take away their baby sister to Oklahoma, while they stayed in New Jersey with their extremely irresponsible parents. […]
Cannonball: a Family Affair
I heard about Mary Anna King’s Bastards through an article on Uproxx a few months ago and clearly so did a few other people because after her book came out in late June there was a wait list at the local library. Bastards is not a completely accurate title- Mary and her siblings were born to parents who were married (although at some points separated) but financial circumstances made keeping them all together impossible. Before Mary was two her grandfather & his wife came to […]