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A review by zmull
Gone Feral: Tracking My Dad Through the Wild by Novella Carpenter
4.0
Note: I won this book in a First Reads drawing. Thanks so much!
Gone Feral is a lovely memoir about a woman attempting to make a lasting human connection with a father who has little use for human connections. Novella Carpenter's father remains mysterious, both to her and to the reader, through this look into his life. Fortunately, what Carpenter learns in trying to know him speaks to things beyond his biography, including childhood, marriage, responsibility to others and to your own dreams, and finally parenthood, when Carpenter makes a point that will stick with me. She learns that her parents will always love her more than she is able to love them back, however much she loves them back, because parenthood is all-consuming. An interesting thought. A wonderful book.
Gone Feral is a lovely memoir about a woman attempting to make a lasting human connection with a father who has little use for human connections. Novella Carpenter's father remains mysterious, both to her and to the reader, through this look into his life. Fortunately, what Carpenter learns in trying to know him speaks to things beyond his biography, including childhood, marriage, responsibility to others and to your own dreams, and finally parenthood, when Carpenter makes a point that will stick with me. She learns that her parents will always love her more than she is able to love them back, however much she loves them back, because parenthood is all-consuming. An interesting thought. A wonderful book.