Jarrett Krosoczka is a New York Times best-selling author of many fun, light books for kids. Now he tells the story of his own childhood in a moving and honest memoir. Jarrett's mother was a heroin addict who was in and out of half-way homes and jails for most of his childhood. He was raised instead by his grandparents, who loved and supported him in their own imperfect way. They nurtured his growing art talents and beamed at his eighth grade and high school graduations. They also drank too much, sometimes fought, and expressed deeply mixed feelings about the slender relationships Jarrett maintained with his birth parents. I'm very glad that Jarrett decided to tell his story. He writes that he was saved by art, and I think his work will save others.