LaRue's father was an alcoholic in a time before the language of addiction and empathy had been invented, when alcoholics weren't called alcoholics, they were called drunks.

拉鲁的父亲酗酒，那时还没有" 成瘾" 和" 同理心" 这些术语，酗酒的人不叫" 酗酒者" ，而被称为" 酒鬼" 。

That air of respectability was carefully concocted by her mother. My grandmother, LaRue, had come of age in the 1950s, in the decade of idealistic fever that burned after World War II.

这种表面的体面是她母亲精心炮制的结果。我的外婆拉鲁成年于二十世纪五十年代，当时正值二战后理想主义成为狂热思潮的十年。