Dodging Her Chariot

Dodging Her Chariot draws the reader in immediately and holds on to the very end. Readers "feel" her characters with tears, courage and laughter. Becomming a proxy mom from the age of seven taught Marie that her exintence in the family depended on how well she raised her younger siblings. The possibility of one or more of them being permanently left somewhere, as her four older siblings had been, remained a threat during her family"s many local and cross-country moves. A schizophrenic manic-depresive mother and an alcholic abusive stepfather created a life filled with trials, and innovative exploits used by a young girl to protect and raise the children put in her charge. Dodging Her Chariot is the first in a four part series of memoirs covering the author's first 16 years.