Born With a Rusty Spoon: An Artist's Memoir

Had the bullet not missed her heart by on-sixteenth of an inch, this story would not have been told.

Born with a Rusty Spoon is the story of artist Bertie Stroup Marah who, along with her four siblings, spent her childhood in abject poverty moving from sawmill shacks, tents, dilapidated houses, trailers and even an abandoned railroad car in the isolated desert and mountainous hard scrabble ares of New Mexico. Bertie tells her story through the innocent eyes of her childhood while being raise...