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Surpassing Certainty: What My Twenties Taught Me
by Janet Mock
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
A great follow up to "Redefining Realness." I also read this book in audio format, immediately after reading Mock's first memoir. Her narrative voice is clear, poetic, and incisive as she describes her time as a college student in Hawaii working at a strip club and then moving into majority-white spaces for a college semester, a masters' program, then her writing/editing career. It also chronicles her first long-term (sometimes long-distance) romantic relationship.
A great read if you've finished her first memoir and wondered "then what?"
I was surprised when this book ended. I didn't see the end coming, and thought some of the storylines were wrapped up a little too neatly and quickly.
Mock is a skilled writer with a strikingly empathetic look at her own past self and the others in her life who have come and go and often caused her harm. She explores the relationships that have helped her form her identity in adulthood and shares vignettes that convey moments of wonder, ambition, despair, frustration in a racist system, and belonging among friends and (chosen) family. She tells the story of a woman who followed a dream, wasn't fulfilled, and continued digging to explore where exactly she needed to go and who she needed to be.
A great read if you've finished her first memoir and wondered "then what?"
I was surprised when this book ended. I didn't see the end coming, and thought some of the storylines were wrapped up a little too neatly and quickly.
Mock is a skilled writer with a strikingly empathetic look at her own past self and the others in her life who have come and go and often caused her harm. She explores the relationships that have helped her form her identity in adulthood and shares vignettes that convey moments of wonder, ambition, despair, frustration in a racist system, and belonging among friends and (chosen) family. She tells the story of a woman who followed a dream, wasn't fulfilled, and continued digging to explore where exactly she needed to go and who she needed to be.