Following the author's wildly beloved Overlay and City of Angeles memoirs, Big As All Hell And Half Of Texas completes the Memoirs of Marlayna Glynn Brown trilogy. This final volume candidly explores the pertinent societal question: how does an ill-equipped adult child of alcoholics navigate life after a childhood fraught with abuse, scarcity and neglect? Continuing her engrossing journey from the moment City of Angeles ends, the author tell the tales of her life - replete with enlightening mistakes, edifying consequences, and ultimately bittersweet forgiveness and personal redemption. This honest and inspirational account of the author's struggle with depression, divorce, single parenting, and ill-fitting love affairs illustrates Marlayna's motto that the bigger the losses and lessons, the better the life.