sarahjsnider's review against another edition
3.0
I wanted more from this. The parts that were good were very good--the events in the hospital shortly after his polio diagnosis were very vivid and well-told, and I liked the context provided. I think the problem was, he doesn't remember enough details from the rest of his teenage experience, and he didn't want to pull a James Frey and fictionalize it. I felt I was left with an incomplete picture as a result. Strange to say, fictionalizing the story may have made it more real.
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