Growing up in Iowa in the 1980s, with a mentally ill mother helped shape Diana's perspective and experience around what it was like living with the chaos, pain, and confusion of mental illness. The book touches on the pain and triumph of her experience. Diana walks you through her life from the age of 8 years old until adulthood, sharing crazy stories about her childhood and mother who suffers from a severe mental illness. The story touches on is rape, murder, kidnapping, abuse, love, and coming to terms with the past.