A review by hanelisil
The Misfit's Manifesto by Lidia Yuknavitch

4.0

Phenomenal writer who speaks from the depths of her experience. "I'm not the story you made of me." So much of this book rings of Pema Chadron's thoughts on the moment when things fall apart... That those who have seen the darkest sides of humanity and lived to tell the tale then actually can provide strength and compassion in a way others cannot. Also loved two sections (bookmarked in audiobook so I have no idea how else to find them). 1. Where she describes how her mother soldiered through her extreme pain without any complaint. 2. How she explained the end of her second marriage, having felt love so deeply but thinking she didn't deserve it or could find anything else like it and therefore severing ties felt like cutting off both of her own arms and driving away in a beat up truck. That.