History YMMV / OutOfTheDust

* InformedWrongness:
** From the chapter "Not Everywhere":
-->''Louise is back at the house. She wanted to come but this is Ma’s place, Ma’s grave, Franklin’s too, and Louise has no buisness here. She wants to come everywhere with us. Well, I won’t let her. Not everywhere. Daddy says, “She could have come. There’s room enough for everyone, Billie Jo.” But there’s not. She can come into Ma’s kitchen. She can hang around the barn. She can sit beside Daddy when he drives the truck. But Ma’s bones are in this hill. Ma’s and Franklin’s. And their bones wouldn’t like it, if Louise came walking up here between us.''

* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: Billy Jo for not letting Louise (Daddy’s new girlfriend) visit her Ma and stillborn brother’s graves. She acts like she knows how their bones would feel about it and that she has the final say in whether Louise can come, despite the fact that she’s Daddy’s girlfriend. Additionally, this comes after almost a full book of character development, during which she’s learned to forgive her father for essentially causing her Ma’s death, so it comes across rather shallow.
** Even when she finally does allow Louise to go, she adds, “Ma’s bones didn’t object. Neither did mine,” as if she really did know that Ma wouldn’t have liked it to begin with.

* WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids: This is a popular children's book in America. It's told through poems from the eyes of a teenage girl living through the Great Depression, more specifically the dustbowl. Out of the Dust is nothing but a miserable story about a girl whose pregnant mother suffers graphically described burns in a freak accident and who later dies of her injuries alongside her newborn son. The protagonist herself suffers painful burns to her hands which almost end her piano playing hobby. Her father ends up distant and depressed after all those events. That's not even related to the fact they live in a poor, rural area where dust storms are an everyday occurrence. There is an optimistic ending, but the book is mostly tragedy after tragedy. The author received complaints for how grim of a children's book and has noted that she believes children can handle harsher topics than adults give them credit.

* TheWoobie: '''[[UpToEleven Damn near everyone.]]'''

* NightmareFuel: Billie Jo's description of Ma's injuries.

* TheWoobie: '''[[UpToEleven Damn near everyone.]]'''

TearJerker: To the point where it could be published under the title ''TearJerker: The Novel''
TheWoobie: '''[[UpToEleven Damn near everyone.]]'''