Title: Some of these reviews are thoughtless
Product review: Before criticizing an author who has undoubtedly poured years of sweat and toil into her first book, some of these reviewers should look a little closer at themselves. A memoir--and this book IS a memoir--is "self-centered" by its very nature. It is about one person's experience, and their particular view of the world through that lens. To criticize a memoirist for writing too much "about herself" is like criticizing a biographer for writing to much "about someone else." If you wanted a travel guide, to Fodor's with you. Instead what you got is a very honest description of a young woman's trials and tribulations in a very foreign country. Some of this took courage to write, too, and we should respect that, rather than trying to use some of that honesty (some brief passages about her sex life, for example) against her.
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