Member of the Family

Audiobook narrated by Dianne Lake herself. Fascinating look inside the Manson Family given by the youngest member. Star deducted for the long beginning—she focuses on her parents for a good while, and her early relationship with them, before ever starting to talk about her meeting up with the Family. I understand that her own family's treatment of her, introducing her to drugs and making her unwelcome at several junctures, set her up to need Charlie Manson, but this first section was so long that I actually wandered away from this audiobook for a while. (Part of the problem, admittedly, was that I was disgusted with her parents' treatment of her, and didn't want to hear any more about it in detail.)