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Title: Linda Kay of NY's "Unbelievable" got it exactly right
Review: An earlier reviewer, Linda Kay, wrote that this book is "a disjointed, indulgent self-analysis of an uninteresting woman who apparently blames her famous, scandal-ridden great-grandfather for her failed life." How right she is. Billed as being "part memoir, part biography," it is actually about 5/6 rambling, disjointed ruminations about the author's own life and only maybe 1/6 about White's life (and that part contains noting revelatory, insightful or new). Some passages are written about twice, pieces of different stories are inserted randomly at several different (and inexplicably non-chronological) places, and the parts about White and Nesbit are taken (without question or analysis) almost verbatim from Nesbit's own memoirs. Did this even have an editor? Don't waste your money.
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