Many children are born into poor families worldwide. It is not the same as being born into a family suffering from a poverty mentality... Pink Is For Disappointment is a fictional work about just such a family and a son who was the family disappointment. The main Character John in first person, tells how he spent half his life and went through a hundred years worth of experiences trying to escape just such a life in the 1950's and 60's in the countryside of Manitoba Canada. Having been born into a family of Mennonites in a tiny village where nature rules supreme and preachers rule the people you will go with him on some beautifully memorable excursions in the western style of life. Some books beg you to join in the story, this book however, will not let you leave till the last page where you wonder what his twenties looked like.