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A review by kay85
What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in Essays by Damon Young
3.0
3.5 —
I started off not liking this book but I’m glad I stuck with it. The latter essays — notably the ones about feeling the ire of the internet for writing a terrible take on rape, the one about his mother, his daughter, and tales of the barbershop — were enjoyable, funny sad and thought provoking. My main gripe of the book (tangents, extended metaphors) still revealed itself at times but I was able to get over that.
I started off not liking this book but I’m glad I stuck with it. The latter essays — notably the ones about feeling the ire of the internet for writing a terrible take on rape, the one about his mother, his daughter, and tales of the barbershop — were enjoyable, funny sad and thought provoking. My main gripe of the book (tangents, extended metaphors) still revealed itself at times but I was able to get over that.