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I'm also a fifth-generation Kansan, except that I'm 67 years old and my ancestors moved here before Kansas was a state. I was disappointed by this book. What was her point? What does our society owe her: she seems to have done very well by its good intentions but where does she think the state/nation should intervened to keep her kin from destroying themselves? I'm a bona fide liberal, but her family seems to have done everything it could to crush her. I'm glad she escaped that (as do many Kansans), but blaming that society at large for her family's failures seems more than a bit cruel to her fellow Kansans. Kansas isn't perfect by a long shot, but please make a reasonable attempt to compare the state to others before condemning it. Sarah; I wanted to love this book, but couldn't. At all.