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A review by readers_block
The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir by Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich
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2.5/5
It's so hard to adequately rate a book about someone else's trauma, especially one this difficult to read about.
I just did not like the premise of this book. There are two vastly different situatoins, one which happened to the author and another crime which she becomes involved in by nature of being a lawyer. Attempting to equate the two and find similarities, which the author does, seems a stretch.
I was also very much not in favor of the author's continuous imagining of scenes that actually took place. She paints pictures of these scenes that actually happened out of thin air. I understand what she is trying to do, which is explain that even though the law seeks to pursue the truth, it is not possible to do so. I just do not think it works.
It's so hard to adequately rate a book about someone else's trauma, especially one this difficult to read about.
I just did not like the premise of this book. There are two vastly different situatoins, one which happened to the author and another crime which she becomes involved in by nature of being a lawyer. Attempting to equate the two and find similarities, which the author does, seems a stretch.
I was also very much not in favor of the author's continuous imagining of scenes that actually took place. She paints pictures of these scenes that actually happened out of thin air. I understand what she is trying to do, which is explain that even though the law seeks to pursue the truth, it is not possible to do so. I just do not think it works.