Coal to Diamonds: A Memoir by Beth Ditto – review

Beth Ditto's riveting memoir has plenty of shocks, but not always in the places you'd expect themIt's only page 10 of Beth Ditto's slim but gripping memoir and we're already eating squirrels. Three luckless rodents are shot by Ditto's stoned cousin Dean, who skins them, guts them, fries them up and devours them in a fit of the munchies. He leaves the clearing-up to Ditto, who has just had her first suck on a bong made out of a Coke can.All this was normal in Ditto's native semi-rural Arkansas in...

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