A Child Called It:

      The Child called it was a really sad book. I can't even imagine what David must have felt when his mom turned on him. His mom started off being a decent mother, then she started drinking and started blaming David for all of her problems. She would have her sons go on random searches for "supposedly missing items," and she'd have them search for hours. Then, she just started making David search for her things. David never found them, so she would tell him how worthless he was. That was just the start of it. Then she started smashing his face against the mirror, hitting him, and one time, she even tried to put him on top of a hot stove and burn him. His mother started going crazy. What I still don't really understand, is why his mother just changed this drastically. I mean, I know it was probably due to the liquor, but why did she start drinking so heavily in the first place? That is something the book doesn't really explain.