Title: Self-indulgent, unfocused blathering
Review: Throughout this book I asked myself "where was the editor?" Not only was it grossly repetitive, but it was also rambling and diffuse. Who cares, I kept saying page after page. It seemed to me that Gordon may've had a good idea, but the subject failed to come to life. Instead of giving up on a foundering narrative, she forced it. Perhaps she had a hefty advance? Still, it stunned me that an editor didn't hack away at least half of the book, or ask Gordon who she really wanted to write about, her father or her mother. (The mother by the way was a lot more interesting, perhaps because when Gordon writes about her she has a narrative tone - angle. Comparatively, when she wries about her father, the prose is flat.)
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