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A review by posh_salad
You Don't Look Like Anyone I Know: A True Story of Family, Face Blindness, and Forgiveness by Heather Sellers
2.0
I want to give this book 2.5 stars really. It's just sort of all over the place. The author spends a lot of time talking about her family, her childhood (which is a sort of Running With Scissors deal) and her really boring marriage. Peppered within those stories are a few examples of her face-blindness. But the face-blindness is the title - it should be primarily about that, right? If the book was called My Messed Up Childhood or The Marriage That Wasn't I wouldn't be as disappointed.
Supposedly the author has one of the most profound cases of prosopnosnia (sp?) ever documented. Another reason for it to play a bigger part in the story. It's like being excited about seeing The Wizard of Oz and finding out it's about Auntie Em.
The other reason I didn't like the book is she spends almost the entire time telling horror stories about her family and then, at the very end, gets a little uppity when people start saying how awful her parents were. They're ill, I get it, but it doesn't mean they weren't awful, weren't abusive. If she didn't want the reader to feel that way, she should not have led us down that emotional path.
Supposedly the author has one of the most profound cases of prosopnosnia (sp?) ever documented. Another reason for it to play a bigger part in the story. It's like being excited about seeing The Wizard of Oz and finding out it's about Auntie Em.
The other reason I didn't like the book is she spends almost the entire time telling horror stories about her family and then, at the very end, gets a little uppity when people start saying how awful her parents were. They're ill, I get it, but it doesn't mean they weren't awful, weren't abusive. If she didn't want the reader to feel that way, she should not have led us down that emotional path.