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Loud in the House of Myself Memoir of a Strange Girl
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Stacy Pershall
mflores422
, January 02, 2013
I suspect I will be picking this book up to re-read soon. Delving into mental illness with humor and honesty in a way that not only pulls the reader in, but invites them to make admissions of suffering for themselves. Not just another 'self exploration book', Pershall writes like the bad-ass cooler sister to keep you interested and invested in her outcome.
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Family Sentence: The Search for My Cuban-Revolutionary, Prison-Yard, Mythic-Hero, Deadbeat Dad
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Jeanine Cornillot
mflores422
, September 20, 2012
I don’t read books about dads or father-daughter struggles. My own story has been enough to carry. So, I appreciated that Jeanine eases the reader into her narrative and weaves the stories about her father in with plenty of details on the strong and amazing women who raised her. She also managed to keep the story light and I found myself laughing out loud about her clumsy efforts to straddle the cultural fences she’s been born into. It was really her story of being raised between two worlds (one Cuban, one American) that I held to the most. There must be many of us. Children of white mothers and Mexican/Cuban/Guatemalan, etc. fathers. You live between two very different worlds where none of the foods or rules or languages intersect. You are lucky because you will experience both. But you are burdened because you will always be “Other.” I never managed to understand the language. Neither did Cornillot. Her father was in prison most of her young life. Her memories are built on random visits and the awkward kind of conversations you have when you know someone without knowing them. In the end, she hears what so many father-less daughters fear hearing. That her father’s life was dedicated to another cause (in this case, overthrowing Fidel), and he had no regrets about bowing out of fatherhood. It was not for him and he was honest. And Cornillot is honest in telling her story and sharing that some stories are forever a ‘work in progress.' Retold to the best of her abilities, Cornillot is honest that she may not always remember things as they happened, but she is quick to point out that her story is not just told through her own eyes, but through the fragmented pieces gathered by her very colorful family.
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Exclusive Love
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Johanna Adorjan
mflores422
, August 04, 2012
An Exclusive Love: A Memoir by Johanna Adorjan is really two stories in one: The uncovered secrets found in Ms. Adorjan's search for her grandparents' true history and her personal struggle to find her place within it. Opening with the haunting sentence, "On 13 October 1991 my grandparents killed themselves," the book is filled with tales war and love and secrets told to insure survival. Adorjan is a brave writer to head down the path that led her beloved grandparents to suicide not knowing what she would find. That her grandparents survived a war that was more surreal and horror like than any event could be, losses of entire families and cultures, speaks to their strength and determination. Not just to survive, but to be in control of how they would live. And someday, how they would die. Adorjan has a very self-effacing style and she admits to having no idea what will be revealed as she goes along her way. Her writing isn’t lead by desperation or fear. She is hungry to know her family, whatever that may bring, but she struggles to find her voice and how she fits in to it all. She admits to feeling like she’s prying and invasive when interviewing elderly friends of her grandparents. Her grandparents story is fascinatingly, but briefly told by pulling together family memories, documents and correspondence found in her grandparents home, and her own personal journal. It’s a story worth learning.
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Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
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Aimee Bender
mflores422
, January 01, 2011
Fell in love with Bender's beautiful mixture of family and food and finding our own way.
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