Reviews

The Book of Jon by Eleni Sikelianos

hasameechi's review against another edition

4.0

An incredible work of hybrid memoir showing the complicated relationship the author had with her father. She takes you on the twists and turns of Jon’s life and yet you never lose the timeline or the emotions evoked.

laurelinwonder's review against another edition

5.0

This book is less a traditional memoir, and more a piecing together of daily lore and history to try and define a lost father. This is not a play by play of what happened to Jon, more so a grasping at the edges of the stories of him that those who knew him best can recall. This is a book that plays with genre, that loops in and out of poetry, prose, short essay, new clippings, photos, and research. This is unlike most memoirs, and it doesn't leave you with answers, but it cannot help but change he way we see a loved one, how we tell their stories after they are gone. Reminiscent of "Shadow Man", though investigative in a different way, Sikelianos reaches into the heart of what truth is when you are outside of it, but wanting to be caught up in it.