My Unsentimental Education

A woman reflects on her working-class roots, her unsuitable exes, and her accidental road to happiness in a memoir of “many delights” ( Atlanta Journal Constitution ). A misfit in Spooner, Wisconsin, with its farms, bars, and strip joints, Debra Monroe leaves to earn a degree, then another, and another, and builds a career—if only because her plans to be a midwestern housewife continually get scuttled. Fearless but naive, she vaults over class barriers but never quite leaves her past behind. Whe