A review by dinasamimi
I Live a Life Like Yours: A Memoir by Jan Grue

3.0

The writing is really lovely at a sentence level but this memoir goes nowhere. Maybe Grue is a big star in Norway and that is context enough for the target reader, whoever that is, but I definitely felt kept at a distance. Grue does zero grappling with his privilege and intersectionality in the greater disability world. I did not appreciate the heavy use of quotes as a sort of narrative arc? He needs quite a bit more growth and self-exploration in order to write a fully fleshed memoir, which this is not.