jaguarshark 's review for:

The Wild Truth: A Memoir by Carine McCandless

2.0

challenging dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

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This would have held my interest better as a magazine article. I came away with a lot of sympathy for the group of siblings, but feeling as if none of them really understood their brother much better than the rest of the world. I could not care less about the author’s personal romantic history, which ended up being half the content. Perhaps it would have been better to separate this into two shorter books: one about the true life story of Chris McCandless, and one about that of his sister. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Physical abuse, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Grief, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Classism

Moderate: Mental illness, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Pregnancy

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Bullying, Drug use, Incest, Infertility, Miscarriage, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape