A brutally raw, beautifully written, remarkably brave memoir about family, trauma and, above all, love. Social mobility is not a train you get to board after you've scraped together enough for the ticket. You have to build the whole bloody engine, with nothing but a spoon and hand-me-down psychological distress. Violence, treachery and cruelty run through the generational veins of Rick Morton's family. A horrific accident...
thrusts his mother and siblings into a world impossible for them to navigate, a life of poverty and drug addiction.
One Hundred Years of Dirt is an unflinching memoir in which the mother is a hero who is never rewarded.
It is a meditation on the anger and fear of others and an obsession with real and imagined borders.
Yet it is also a testimony to the strength of familial love and endurance.
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