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The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir by Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich

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rronnniii's review

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5.0

Amazing. Deep. Complex. I would love to reread one day with more time so I can deeply annotate. 

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miachimochi's review

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challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

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leahcatching's review against another edition

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challenging dark tense medium-paced

3.75


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shieldbearer's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

3.0

Rating memoirs always feels strange to me, but this is not a pure memoir, this is also a nonfictional account, and it is on those grounds I find fault. I am aware the author says upfront that several events around the events of the Langley trial/murder are composite, compressed or otherwise altered, but frankly I deeply disliked the aspect where the author is clearly ascribing and assuming the thought processes of the real people involved in this. "[y person] MUST HAVE [felt/thought z thing]" got extremely, tediously old. It also got irritating when the author frequently ascribed personalities and descriptions onto people we could get only glimpses from fact. Why is every person we have such glimpses of imagined by the author to be young and naive?? I would much have preferred a straight forward account of all the contradictions and complexities, even if it was more complicated. The writing is beautiful but I couldn't get past the framing.


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greatexpectations77's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.75

Whew, this book is so so hard, and probably because it's so well-written. I think it's as close to poetry as prose comes. So much research, so much hurt, so much trauma. Incredible. Would read anything Marzano-Lesnevich wrote.

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paigeno's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional sad

4.75


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albernikolauras's review

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challenging dark emotional informative reflective tense medium-paced

4.25

The way this book is written tears you apart. Lesnevich definitely put her time and research into this book in a way that makes it clear the imprint the case left on her. The indepth research of the case overlaid with her own story was very well-done. Neither overpowered the other. Once I started this book, it was hard to put down.

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blaisabrina's review

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dark emotional sad slow-paced

3.0


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jennivardier's review

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challenging dark emotional tense slow-paced

3.0


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samchase112's review

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challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

5.0

Damn. The Fact of a Body is an extremely powerful book about deeply disturbing and difficult topics. Marzano-Lesnevich's writing is so compelling and they weave the story together so incredibly well; each scene, each word, was so carefully chosen. I won't lie, this is not an easy book to read -- there is something horrible happening on seemingly every page. All I can say is that I loved and hated every second in almost equal measure.

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