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The Woo-Woo: How I Survived Ice Hockey, Drug Raids, Demons, and My Crazy Chinese Family by Lindsay Wong
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siobhanward's review against another edition
emotional
slow-paced
3.0
I struggle to rate memoirs low, because after all this is someone's account of their life, but this was just not a great read. It felt very much like Wong should have been describing the contents of this book to a therapist, rather than to an audience. Despite how clearly she remembers everything in the book, she seems very disconnected from all of it, which makes it feel like a total outsider telling the story, rather than someone in the middle of everything.
This made for a book that felt like a work of fiction, rather than a memoir. I'm not questioning the validity of the story at all, but Wong's disconnect from these events made it seem as though she has not fully processed things and really should be getting the help she needs (and deserves), rather than turning her story into a memoir. I'm just not sure what I'm supposed to learn from this, other than that untreated mental illness is traumatizing for the people around you and absolutely changes the outcome of your life, none of which is a revelation.
This made for a book that felt like a work of fiction, rather than a memoir. I'm not questioning the validity of the story at all, but Wong's disconnect from these events made it seem as though she has not fully processed things and really should be getting the help she needs (and deserves), rather than turning her story into a memoir. I'm just not sure what I'm supposed to learn from this, other than that untreated mental illness is traumatizing for the people around you and absolutely changes the outcome of your life, none of which is a revelation.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Bullying, Mental illness, Suicide attempt, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, and Suicidal thoughts
Moderate: Chronic illness
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