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A review by coldinaugust
Amen, Amen, Amen: Memoir of a Girl Who Couldn't Stop Praying (Among Other Things) by Abby Sher
5.0
The book was totally engrossing, and the writer talented. I can't tell you how comforting and fascinating it is to read about someone *else's* obsessive fears & compulsive behaviors & relationships to stave those fears off, to try to keep them at bay. OCD isn't about liking things clean or organized; it's about trying to control things you can as a way to compensate for things you can't, even (and especially) when it gets in the way of the rest your life, just for a little more room to put air in your lungs where the anxiety has created a vacuum. Sher is really, really talented at quite poetically putting that into words, into stories.
A sad & emotional book to read, definitely coming with a trigger warning for folks with disordered eating/eating disorders and/or self-harm issues, but powerful and really well-written. I loved the way she wrote about her father in the beginning, the way her voice almost sounded like the 10-year-old child she was at the time the story took place, how very much she loved him. I felt myself missing her father throughout the whole book. A lot of times I couldn't put it down.
A sad & emotional book to read, definitely coming with a trigger warning for folks with disordered eating/eating disorders and/or self-harm issues, but powerful and really well-written. I loved the way she wrote about her father in the beginning, the way her voice almost sounded like the 10-year-old child she was at the time the story took place, how very much she loved him. I felt myself missing her father throughout the whole book. A lot of times I couldn't put it down.