"It isn't fair, it isn't right," Mrs. Hutchinson screamed, and then they were upon her. - Shirley Jackson

Life Among the Savages is a disrespectful memoir of my children.

Around her the trees and wild flowers, with that oddly courteous air of natural things suddenly interrupted in their pressing occupations of growing and dying, turned toward her with attention, as though, dull and imperceptive as she was, it was still necessary for them to be gentle to a creation so unfortunate as not to be rooted in the ground, forced to go from one place to another, heart-breakingly mobile.

Elizabeth, Beth, Betsy, and Bess, they all went together to find a bird's nest...