A review by rocknrollbookshelf
Unlikely Viking: From the D.C. Projects to Rural Nebraska by Garry Clark

5.0

Some memoirs have a clear plotline, tied up with a bow, and while those have their merits, I'm more strongly drawn to memoirs that are a little messier, that grapple and meander, that provide a window into one person's experience of the questions we all ask of ourselves about our lives: What did that mean, or that? Is this person in my life a hero or a villain? Am I special or just lucky? What, ultimately, is the purpose of it all? Unlikely Viking serves as a powerful meditation on searching for meaning in one's own struggles and triumphs, neither of which are in short supply in the author's life. Unlikely Viking is compulsively readable and full of heart while staying honest and never shying away from the toughest themes of inequality and injustice.