Title: phony balony
Product review: Besides being self-consciously, but poorly, written I thought this writer was disingenuous. She begins the book talking about how poor her memory is and goes on to recall every detail of her life, down to what people said and wore. While she does not idealize her mother she also does not comment on the remarkable neglect she suffered at her hands, and furthermore does not acknowledge how important were the only two women who seemed to have cared for her, her paternal grandmother and stepmother. I realize that coming from a mixed background does not make things easy for a person, however, this writer does not make clear what her particular problem was. Her drug use and promiscuity seemed to be in large part due to the lack of involvement of her mother, and her 'poor me' attitude more to do with her character than her circumstances. And then the surprise at the end - the coy way she tells us she is a lesbian - just one more unexplained event.
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