A review by angiehoer7
The Gin Closet by Leslie Jamison
4.0
I liked the different perspectives of the same events from the character’s eyes. The ending was not well written. It was inconsistent with the character and story
Favorite passages:
You make what happens next
My mother knew that money didn’t come from nowhere. Money only showed up, she said, from someone
eating myself sick between the outsize dresses of another wom-an’s brokedown dreams.
There was an emptiness that I filled with other people’s secrets.
this was what the sedative had done. It had not protected me, exactly; it had protected me from wanting to protect myself.
the salted wound of memory
This was what happened when lives got close and tangled.
It’s like you need to let the feeling break you into little pieces before you can collect them again
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Favorite passages:
You make what happens next
My mother knew that money didn’t come from nowhere. Money only showed up, she said, from someone
eating myself sick between the outsize dresses of another wom-an’s brokedown dreams.
There was an emptiness that I filled with other people’s secrets.
this was what the sedative had done. It had not protected me, exactly; it had protected me from wanting to protect myself.
the salted wound of memory
This was what happened when lives got close and tangled.
It’s like you need to let the feeling break you into little pieces before you can collect them again
Excerpt from: "The Gin Closet" by Leslie Jamison. Scribd.
This material may be protected by copyright.
Read this book on Scribd: https://www.scribd.com/book/224405966