When She Was Good 1-100

The first part of this book is Em shopping for a casket for her sister, Pamela. Pamela is her older sister who has physically and verbally abused her her whole life. Pamela is very loud and rude, and she likes to have things her way. Em lived with Pamela because her mother, who had severe depression, died, and she and Pamela ran away from their father. He was an alcoholic who was remarried, and they hated his new wife, Sally. Sally thought that they should quit school and get jobs because she wasn’t going to let them live in her house unless they paid rent. The first part of this book is about Em’s life now. She’s finally realizing that she’s out of Pamela’s grasp and free to live how she wants. The second section is a bunch of stories about things that happened when Pamela was still alive.