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Somebody's Daughter: A Memoir by Ashley C. Ford

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emotional reflective fast-paced

5.0

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challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

I picked up the book after listening to an interview with the author and was intigued by how at peace she was with her upbringing and how beautifully she told her story. Her memoire did not disappoint. Listening to the audiobook, which the author herself narrates, made it even more impactful.

She takes us back in time and into her head to different points in time of her life. From her troubled childhood into her early adult years figuring out how to navigate life. She tells her story with compassion without making excuses. I was very moved by her book

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challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

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reflective slow-paced

3.75

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dark emotional sad slow-paced

3.0

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emotional hopeful reflective sad slow-paced

5.0

Sharp, beautiful, and vulnerable yet gracefully reserved. Somebody's Daughter is at once an intensely beautiful book about ugly things (abuse, incarceration, rape), and a bittersweet reflection on friendship, and love. I cried many times for Ford, whose careful writing mirrored many of my own experiences with a discomforting degree of acuity. I'll be picking up my own copy when I return this to the friend who was sure I'd love it. She was right.

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inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

4.0

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seebrisk's review against another edition

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High level of trauma content.

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challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring sad fast-paced

3.0

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plantonic_friendships's review against another edition

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dark reflective tense slow-paced

4.25

All in all, I enjoyed the memoir. She's a fantastic writer. Her relationship with her parents, mother in particular, and family is relatable. I for one and the daughter who left home and rarely comes home. Not estranged but not close, especially enough to fully understand things like my brothers' sadnesses and such. Or how calls with my mom sometimes are jovial "hello MOTHER" to "Hey, don't make it seem as if we don't have happy times".

I think the lead was buried and once we got to the lead, it never really got into the deeper introspection. Felt like she circled around the main topics and never got to the point.

The middle of the memoir has the most meat to it. The beginning and ending were strangely detached and vague to me - almost too objective.

Even in the interview she had with the other author after the acknowledgement. There are hints that she left details out to protect her family and other people in her life. Which is fair and valid, but it made the narrative kind meander and left holes in aspects of her life - like unfinished thoughts. The memoir ended up being a bit lackluster and in some aspects of trite because there were parts that felt said because it was the safer bet.

Honestly, a pitfall I myself would probably make it I wrote a memoir that could hurt and reflect poorly on those I love.

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