Maybe, but there's still a huge difference between a little hatchback pinto and a van and going through the experience with your mom vs. only seeing her a couple times during this time period.
Massively inconsistent, I think.
When I was homeless, I didn't have a car. 
A lot of her stories are inconsistent. I remember sometime in the blur of the 90s, either hearing or reading about her and her mom each living in station wagons and how they would park in parking lots in side by side by spaces and how they were "in it together." Then in the Hard Rock Live episode she says she "sold it" (meaning her, green Datsun station wagon) and then she says it was stolen, but luckily she wasn't in it in other stories. Then there is making stained glass art in the back of her van...
I think she was living in vehicles longer than initially stated. I also think that A LOT of the stories were Nedra influenced....
Not to say, she wasn't homeless, but I think that the Nedra influence on her career, interviews and so forth will be set a little straighter in the book. I had about a 5-7 minute convo with her mom in '97.
I honestly think Jewel was kinda brainwashed by the desire to have her mom in her life and the fact that it's really hard to admit that the person you want to be closest to, is the one doing you the most harm. It's a sucky situation.
