A review by annieca
Necessary Trouble: Growing Up at Midcentury by Drew Gilpin Faust

Did not finish book. Stopped at 78%.

This was a memoir but didn't feel like one. The first 100 or so pages are a disjointed genealogical story of Faust's family. But even as we get to the history she lived, it feels like it's being told from the clinical eye of a historian - it reads much more like a history of the times (and not a well-written one) than a memoir. I couldn't get over the detached writing.