A review by jwinchell
Never Fall Down by Patricia McCormick

3.0

Genocide stories have to be told, but I have a problem with the fictionalization of real stories. McCormick's choices & product here remind me of Eggers' in What is the What: hours of interviews, meticulous research, then writing in the first person and filling in the gaps of the interviewee's memory. There's something false there; it doesn't sit well with me. And I just hated the way she adopted his English dialect--hated it.

I'd much prefer to give a young adult First They Killed My Father. Loung Ung's story & voice are her own.