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Somebody's Daughter by Ashley C. Ford

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plantonic_friendships's review

dark reflective tense slow-paced

4.25

All in all, I enjoyed the memoir. She's a fantastic writer. Her relationship with her parents, mother in particular, and family is relatable. I for one and the daughter who left home and rarely comes home. Not estranged but not close, especially enough to fully understand things like my brothers' sadnesses and such. Or how calls with my mom sometimes are jovial "hello MOTHER" to "Hey, don't make it seem as if we don't have happy times".

I think the lead was buried and once we got to the lead, it never really got into the deeper introspection. Felt like she circled around the main topics and never got to the point.

The middle of the memoir has the most meat to it. The beginning and ending were strangely detached and vague to me - almost too objective.

Even in the interview she had with the other author after the acknowledgement. There are hints that she left details out to protect her family and other people in her life. Which is fair and valid, but it made the narrative kind meander and left holes in aspects of her life - like unfinished thoughts. The memoir ended up being a bit lackluster and in some aspects of trite because there were parts that felt said because it was the safer bet.

Honestly, a pitfall I myself would probably make it I wrote a memoir that could hurt and reflect poorly on those I love.

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njean927's review

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challenging emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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amandalorianxo's review

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challenging dark emotional reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

I will admit I picked this one as one of my BOTM choices when this was released as part of their collection I believe a year or two ago. But I started it and then tucked it away. It wasn’t because of the writing, I just didn’t have the headspace for it at the time. But I found this at my local library and picked it up. I spent pockets of my weekend reading it (relatively short in pages & chapters) I appreciated the candor in Ashley’s tone and felt pained at her childhood & the tumultuous relationship with her mother. I’m glad there was light for her when she left Indiana.

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