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It's southern California in the early Sixties, and Charlotte is a teenager, which is bad enough....
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It's southern California in the early Sixties, and Charlotte is a teenager, which is bad enough. She also has strange grandparents, with whom she lives, a schizophrenic ventriloquist alcoholic mother who appears and disappears regularly from her life, and only vague information about the father who died before Charlotte was born.<br><br><br><br>With so much craziness in the family, Charlotte figures, whether it's "nature" or "nurture," she's doomed. In <i>Failure to Zigzag</i>, Jane Vandenburgh gracefully zigzags between hilarity and sorrow as she recounts Charlotte's attempts to grow up and to practice "sanity as a form of revenge."
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