Title: Almost Bored me to Death
Product review: Fortunately, this book didn't succeed in boring me to death, for if it had done so I wouldn't be writing this review. "Almost Americans" had only one story that sparked my interest, and that is the suicide of her first husband. I wanted to read more about how she and her children coped, because they obviously made it through somehow. The rest of the book reads more like "went to school, had lunch, came home."Patricia's father was from the Philippines, her mother from Norway, and both worked as domestic servants. She was born around 1930 and grew up in LA. She doesn't write much about her childhood except perfunctory things, like her father's limited command of English and his complaints about his "spoiled" clients. I would like to have read of some more in-depth interactions with people.I think the major problem with "Almost Americans" is that Patricia writes from the point of an outsider, not an insider. It's as though we're watching the events by peering over a fence.
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