Change Me into Zeus's Daughter: A Memoir

This wonderful book has so many surprises. First among them is the undaunted spirit and strength of a girl who suffers through a hellish childhood and can write beautifully about it without wallowing in regret and elegiac gloom. The humor and apparent lack of bitterness is truly amazing as Ms. Moss relates the horror of an abusive alcoholic father, a numbed but loving mother, and the suffocating poverty of her rural South... Read Full Review

Writing at its best, is lived rather than read. Occasionally we have the privilege to be drawn into someone's experiences with such power and clarity that we are possessed by their history and translated into it. Barbara Moss' story makes us members of the family as she weaves gripping tales of poverty, alcoholism, sickness and neglect into a book that you can't stop reading. As difficult as the circumstances are, the... Read Full Review

This book, both informative and poignant, is one that I plan to recommend to students in anthropology, education, sociology and to instructors of courses dealing with issues affecting modern family life in America. With her frank, straightforward writing style, the author causes every reader to realize that not all American children have access to the American Dream. This book makes one recognize that it is time for each... Read Full Review

A brilliant depiction of alcoholism, codependence, living with facial disfigurement and grinding poverty for a white Alabama family. Within the squalor, terror, and degradation burn powerful flames of erudition, dignity, and love. This book is astonishingly devoid of self-pity.

and I found the book to be a moving and entertaining memoir. I am sure it will become a bestseller. However; this story does not belong to Barbara alone. It also belongs to her Mother and her seven siblings. I know this because I am the author's sister. When I first learned Barbara was going to write this book I was very uneasy. I had put this life in the past and did not want to re-live it. It was very painful and humiliating... Read Full Review