Up from the Blue: This book centers on a brother and sister being raised in a dysfunctional home. The story starts on a military base - as the father is employed as a general prior to being promoted to work at the pentagon. The father is very strict/militant and emotionally unavailable to his children. The mom, although in the home, is non-existant in her kids lives. The responsibilty of being a parent and all it entails ruins her. She is irrational, unpredictable and irresponsible. You find yourself wondering if she is on drugs, depressed or just menatlly unstable. The daughter deeply loves her mother despite her flaws. Once the family moves for the fathers job extreme changes take place which literally break the childrens themselves and the ties that bond them. LOVE LOVE LOVE THIS BOOK!!
