A review by arielamandah
Gone Feral: Tracking My Dad Through the Wild by Novella Carpenter

4.0

So, it's hard for me to know how to feel about this book. I wouldn't call it amazing, the writing was more mediocre than anything. I would venture to guess that, for most people, the story would also feel a little "meh." Yet, though this paints a MUCH more extreme version than I certainly ever knew, so many of the themes in this book reflect my own life and childhood back at me. How many of us were raised this way - free-range children of idealists trying to make it work? The parallels are very broad, but there is something SO familiar about this. I felt like despite it's flaws, this book comes from a place of someone who "gets" it. For that, I really connected with this book.