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Title: *Could* have been good...
Review: The Introduction was so excellent; deep, complex, intelligent, and meaningful. But the rest of the book never matched its tone or quality. I kept waiting for the point, the meat of the personal discoveries, but they didn't come. For example, references to how Jane and her sister would only realize later how deeply certain parental aspects affected them, but never actually telling us about the revelation! So frustrating. And as someone working on memoir myself, it seems the book needed the hand of a good editor to help with flow, transitions, and theme. The raw material was there, but hard to follow.
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