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Title: A Bumbler's Journey
Review: Like many memoirs written in the 1990s, this one celebrates the vacillations, doubts, and insecurities of its author, who in her 40s realizes that "Time had been running out, and I hadn't been paying attention." So begins the chronicle of this midlife crisis, in which our anti-heroine relocates to a cabin in the woods, adopts a Chinese baby and redefines her life. Actually "redefines" conveys too much clarity, too much self-awareness, too much sense of purpose.I know we are suppose to empathize as the author stumbles through the snowy woods (after skidding her car off the road), sees her house glowing in the distance, and realizes she is home.But all I wanted to do throughout was slap some sense into her, get her to read a book, research a subject, or learn how to do something for herself.
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