In this story, the family suffers due to racism and prejudice against African Americans.
The story this question refers to is To Kill a Mocking Bird by Harper Lee. This story focuses on themes such as racism.
In this story, the main character and narrator is Jean Lous Finch who becomes a lawyer and defends Tom Robison a black man falsely accused of some crimes.
In this story, Jean uses the phrase:
The misery of that house began many years before Jem and I were born
To start describing all the bad events this family has suffered due to racism and also due to hard living conditions.
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