A review by debz57a52
Disaster Preparedness: A Memoir by Heather Havrilesky

3.5

Heather Havilesky has a great deal of stories to tell about her childhood and early adult life, and I was here for it.  She wrote just enough to be able to envision things, but not so much that she hammered a dead horse. Many of the stories in her memoir are both funny and sad, or made me both melancholy and angry for her.  And I was almost always shocked by the weirdness (ineptitude) of adults when they are around kids.  In this way, this book reminds me of other books I've read like this: Educated by Tara Westover, Let's Pretend This Never Happened by Jenny Lawson, and even the fictional Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson.