Review by jograce8 - The House of My Mother

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The House of My Mother by Shari Franke

4.5

emotional medium-paced

I'll start off saying obviously everything she has gone through has been horrible and I'm happy to see she is separating from the past and creating a newer and happier future for herself and family. She and her co-writer did an amazing job, this book was impossible to put down and just filled with incredible prose and metaphors. I feel like she is just *so close* to putting two-and-two together connecting a lot of her upbringing + trauma and the LDS church but just *never quite* gets there. She does, but at the same time does not get it fully. But alas to each their own. I would love to hear her story and reflections again in like 20 years when she's further removed from everything and has grown and matured and begun her real, own, independent and adult life. But overall it was an amazingly compelling and honest recounting of her life that made me sick and just want to give her a hug.

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