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lauraellis's review
reflective
sad
medium-paced
3.0
I read this book because it was about a woman of my generation traveling back to her childhood home outside of Iowa City, and I grew up in Iowa City. But this memoir is more about going home and reclaiming early childhood memories than it is of growing up in Iowa City. She brings in her childhood self and her younger adult self, sometimes interacting with them as her current self, and I did not find her use of these devices effective or meaningful. The parts I liked the best were when she remembered places we share--City Park, Prairie Lights, the Sanctuary. People who were raised by "hippies" or who have a Buddhist perspective or find a Buddhist perspective attractive will like it more. The writing, apart from the devices mentioned above, was good.
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