A review by questingnotcoasting
Nobody Will Tell You This But Me: A True (as Told to Me) Story by Bess Kalb

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

This was a captivating biography-memoir told in a really clever way. Kalb tells the story of the women in her family by using her late grandmother's voice, addressing Kalb herself in second person and including transcripts of phone conversations and voicemails. I tend to enjoy books which explore history through individual lives and and there was a really interesting chapter about Kalb's great grandmother fleeing Russia and making a life in the US. Overall Kalb created a really beautiful tribute to her grandmother.
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