Welfare Brat: A Memoir by Mary Childers

October 2011

Last week I finished reading the book Welfare Brat for my Bookclub. After reading the first few pages, I was not to enthusiastic about it. I felt that the story all along was going to be negative and gloomy, but I kept reading and found myself attracted and move by the story. The book is written in a way that is very easy to read. It is a sequence of recollected events events from the writer's life between the ages of 10 to 17. It talks about prejudice, about how people are a result of what they have learned and seen, but also the most important aspect is that it shows that hard work and education can change a path and the story of a person can be written in a different way.