A review by trin
The Impostor's Daughter: A True Memoir by Laurie Sandell

4.0

A graphic memoir, which I am apparently okay with. Unlike [b:The Liar’s Club|14241|The Liars' Club A Memoir|Mary Karr|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166585947s/14241.jpg|1269768], this is more about Sandell’s life as an adult (and her childhood was a whole lot less shitty than [a:Mary Karr|8865|Mary Karr|http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1264001681p2/8865.jpg]’s, anyway). I really like Sandell’s art, and the way it seems to become more sophisticated when she’s illustrating the adult portions rather than the childhood ones—a nice Joycean touch. I’m a little bit “eh” about the idea that the rehab clinic recommended to you by Ashley Judd can solve all your problems, but then I’m “eh” on the idea of therapy in general—I know it helps a lot of people, and my grandmother was a therapist, and so on and so forth, but the idea of relinquishing control to an institution and sharing and group and all that stuff makes me vastly uncomfortable. Hello, my own issues! Maybe this is why I don’t/shouldn’t read memoirs so often: I never have to think about this stuff when I’m reading about fighting crime or blowing up spaceships.