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kaylecorey's review
3.0
I chose this because I know nothing about Estonia and I liked the cover. I thought it would be an interesting travel anthology. It is instead an introspective piece about the author and her connection to her ancestry in Estonia. I found it interesting, and it certainly contained information I had not heard before concerning WWII and Estonia, but I felt the author's writing to be fussy and overwrought to the point where it could be mistaken as pretentious. I don't believe that to be the case, but it could be an alienating factor in whether some audiences will enjoy it. Her views on motherhood struck a deep chord with me, especially the lines:
"As I reemerged into the world, my principal identity as a mother was slowly giving way, like a record-high tide, to reveal the wet, fragile flats of my past selves: writer, teacher, curious observer. But I felt a heavy, silencing threat along my borders- or maybe it had already sneaked inside: Why would anyone want to hear from me?"
I believe that any woman moving back into the world from the shrouds of motherhood will feel those words reverberate within her. There is a certain rawness to reintroducing yourself as a member of society after feeling secluded in child-rearing. It was a decent enough book, but lacked the focus to be a great one.
"As I reemerged into the world, my principal identity as a mother was slowly giving way, like a record-high tide, to reveal the wet, fragile flats of my past selves: writer, teacher, curious observer. But I felt a heavy, silencing threat along my borders- or maybe it had already sneaked inside: Why would anyone want to hear from me?"
I believe that any woman moving back into the world from the shrouds of motherhood will feel those words reverberate within her. There is a certain rawness to reintroducing yourself as a member of society after feeling secluded in child-rearing. It was a decent enough book, but lacked the focus to be a great one.
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