Title: Self-Help Book Striving to Be Memoir
Product review: Jacki Lyden has attempted to capture what it was like to live with and endure the trials of a dysfunctional mother. While the situations evoke sympathy and empathy, they also bring forth pathos, similar to that caused by the Duke of Deception by Geoffrey Wolff. What parents the Duke and the Queen of Sheba make. This is a self-help book striving, apparently, to be memoir. The writing, while at times successful, is repetitive and irksome. How much complaining is a reader supposed to abide?
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