The book starts with Jeannette the main character as an adult, watching her parents from a distance, digging through a dumpster in search of food. She is extremely embarrassed by this because unlike her parents, Jeannette has a home and doesn’t have to dig through dumpsters to find food. Then she reminisces on a memory form when she was three and lit herself on fire. She was standing on a chair in front of the stove, cooking a hotdog when all of a sudden her dress lit on fire. After her mother found out she was on fire she ran to the neighbors yard and their neighbor brought her to the hospital. When she got there they discovered she was severely burned and would have to be in the hospital for a long time. Jeannette’s father was not happy about this and after a couple of weeks he stole her from the hospital. A couple weeks later the cops were in search of her father and their family packed up their belongings and moved.
I feel like the book is foreshadowing that her parents are going to be a big part of her memoir. After reading this I get the impression that there is something very wrong with her family. So far her parents have done a lot of weird things for example throwing their cat out the window of a moving vehicle. I was surprised to find out this much about her in the beginning of the book.
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