A review by missrhinnan
Carry: A Memoir of Survival on Stolen Land by Toni Jensen

3.0

First off, the cover of this book is gorgeous. That said, I was really looking forward to this book. I love it when authors read their own books, especially memoirs of personal essays. Unfortunately the author’s reading in this case was a distraction: sometimes in a somewhat sing-song rhythm, often just in an inscrutable cadence that both detracted and distracted from the content, with rises and falls and flats in places in the sentences that I just could not understand. I realize that she is a poet and this could explain some of that but I just had a hard time focusing on the content bc I found her reading cadence so distracting. Additionally, I realize that this is a collection of essays, some previously published, but there was also a lot of repetition.