Hard to sit through because it's so vulnerable and heartbreaking, but so worth it once you can get through it. I could only read so much of it as a time because even the happy parts of it would make me burst into tears because I knew it was only a matter of time before everything would come crashing down. 

It's fiction, but it's so real. It's the 50s, but it remains painfully relevant even 30 years after it was first published.