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A review by sam8834
Fruit Punch: A Memoir by Kendra Allen
3.5
CW: sexual assault
Poetic prose memoir. Coming-of-age. Stream-of-consciousness remembrance. Adolescence in the religious South and finding your way through rebellion. Kendra Allen is one to watch. These didn't particularly feel like stories I hadn't read before, but Allen's telling of them did. I appreciate the blurred recollections, how she makes it clear that she doesn't remember what age a certain event occurred, but that it also doesn't quite matter. So much about the way this memoir reads speaks to the uncertainty around memory and memories.
Poetic prose memoir. Coming-of-age. Stream-of-consciousness remembrance. Adolescence in the religious South and finding your way through rebellion. Kendra Allen is one to watch. These didn't particularly feel like stories I hadn't read before, but Allen's telling of them did. I appreciate the blurred recollections, how she makes it clear that she doesn't remember what age a certain event occurred, but that it also doesn't quite matter. So much about the way this memoir reads speaks to the uncertainty around memory and memories.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Sexual assault