Jenny Lawson: Why Does She Grow Up In?
The reason Jenny Lawson tends to write this way because of the environment she grew up in. Jenny grew up in Wall, Kansas, which is known for farming and nothing else. Her and her sister both grew up in poverty because with a father working as a taxidermist in a farming town, there's not much of a market for them. Her mother stayed at home, and would regularly take care of the many animals her husband brought in. This kind of childhood would and did, lead to a vivid imagination and resourcefulness. For instance, this fragment from the chapter Things My Father Has Taught Me. “If you want to learn the Native American way to skin a buffalo you should let a bunch of them come live in your yard. Native Americans, that is. Not Buffalo. Honestly, we