A review by lory_enterenchanted
Nervous: Essays on Heritage and Healing by Jen Soriano

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4.0

Powerful, informative, moving, eloquent -- this checked all the boxes for me in terms of trauma memoir. It's not the usual narrative, but a set of essays exploring the author's pain and her quest for healing from a number of different angles, with overlapping and complementary content. She has done a huge amount of research, both in terms of reflecting on her own experiences and gathering the work of others, which can be useful to many readers, even if they don't have quite the massive obstacles that she has. I know it will inform my own ongoing investigation of how to heal generational and inherited trauma in myself. An important book in the growing field of traumatology.