A review by sarah2438
Somebody's Daughter: A Memoir by Ashley C. Ford

3.5

Rating a memoir is really hard because you don't want to be critiquing another person's life experience. At the same time, I think that the description of this book was pretty misleading, and that was disappointing for me. I thought there would be more focus on trying to reconcile the vision Ashley had of her father with the idea of a man who committed the same crimes she had experienced upon herself. That was acknowledged briefly a couple of times but Ashley didn't really dig into it. On that same note, I would be curious to see what thought Ashley has given to her father's victims and how she reconciles that with her own experiences. I think it's likely that she is still working on processing that herself. But if that's the case, the memoir shouldn't be advertised in that way. The focus is much more on her growing up and her relationships with her mother and grandmother--  her father remains more of a background figure.