I only read memoirs and am obsessed with them. This was one of the most bland ones I’ve read so far. This is a girl with a very common story, one I didn’t really see fitting of a memoir. Although the story was about trying to reconnect with her mother during her last days, we never understood why after the throwback segments in the book. Her mother was a bad human and bad mother, a selfish person.
The author wrote the book in a strange format where instead of chapters, it bounces between “then” and “now” yet each segment is generally 1-3 pages (single sided) which is really not enough writing to go into detail about her past. Most of it, despite what she thinks is being “messed up” as the result of not having of mother, is quite normal, so reading about it, I kept questioning why someone would think that these scenarios were worthy of a memoir. Most, albeit not all, were very normal high school kids being high school kids. Things we all experienced.
I didn’t like the lack of detail in the stories nor the disconnect from the other family members. Since each chapter was so short, we never got a good idea of who her father or brothers were in enough detail that we could empathize. It was mostly about her and making some twisted amends with her mother.
What also bothered me were the “book club” questions at the back, as if this were some famed book to be analyzed. I didn’t like this book and felt it was pushing the limits on how anybody can write a book these days and become famous for it. Her writing skills are questionable.
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