A review by rick2
Sea State: A Memoir by Tabitha Lasley
2.0
False pretext. This is a coming of age, finding yourself memoir masquerading as a sociological study. As a sociological study it’s not good. As a memoir it’s middling to ok.
I wanted to read a good literary nonfiction book about what this book ostensibly proposes to be about, masculinity and oil rig workers. I imagined maybe a George Orwell esque, Road to Wigan Pier, perhaps a sort of sexed up ethnography about this topic.
Instead, this is essentially Eat Pray Love among the oilfield workers where the author finds herself by making bad decisions with a married man and journeys around commentating on things, less so on the overall dynamic, and more on how she feels about it. Which is an acceptable type of book, just not not what I was looking for.
The writing is decent. Content was frustrating.
I wanted to read a good literary nonfiction book about what this book ostensibly proposes to be about, masculinity and oil rig workers. I imagined maybe a George Orwell esque, Road to Wigan Pier, perhaps a sort of sexed up ethnography about this topic.
Instead, this is essentially Eat Pray Love among the oilfield workers where the author finds herself by making bad decisions with a married man and journeys around commentating on things, less so on the overall dynamic, and more on how she feels about it. Which is an acceptable type of book, just not not what I was looking for.
The writing is decent. Content was frustrating.