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I Came All This Way to Meet You: Writing Myself Home by Jami Attenberg

2 reviews

sshabein's review

emotional funny inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

"Every day we sit down to work we swim in a sea of our own fuck-ups. On the shore is one good sentence."

This is a book full of great sentences, thoughts on what it means to live for your creative life, and how one writer found a sense of home for herself. Definitely recommend.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual harassment

Moderate: Sexual assault

caseythereader's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny reflective fast-paced

4.0

Thanks to Ecco Books and Libro FM for the free advance copy of this book.

 - I CAME ALL THIS WAY TO MEET YOU is less a recounting of Attenberg's life, and more a consideration of how she got here and how she became the person she is today - someone fully devoted to art and life and the joy of community.
- I appreciated the exploration of the mental effects of coming up in the art and literature world as a woman, and particularly a woman mostly doing it on her own. She looks at both the joys of going solo and choosing your own path, and the pitfalls and scary moments. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Blood, Cursing, Drug abuse, Drug use, Injury/Injury detail, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, and Suicide attempt