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My Name's Not Susie: A Life Transformed by Literacy

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Anyone who feels that literacy has changed their life should read this book. The author
tells of her heart-wrenching, lonely existence as an abused child who was shuttled from
one foster home to another until she was adopted by a woman who opened her eyes to the
world of reading. The author was able to overcome her less than auspicious beginning
to become a professor of English at IUPUI. This story could have been told
with much melodrama, but the author tells it in an extremely honest manner and lets the
drama of the story come through naturally. She does not beg for sympathy for the
circumstances of her childhood. She simply tells the readers how literacy brought her
out of a miserable existence and makes a connection with her readers that will, at least
for this reader, last forever.