A review by jerakahs
It's Fun to Be a Person I Don't Know by Chachi D. Hauser

emotional informative reflective medium-paced

3.5

The blurb on the back of this book claims that it is not a juicy Hollywood tell-all about the author's connection to the Disney Family (she is the great-great niece of Walt himself), but rather an exploration of identities in all forms--gender, familial, racial. I agree somewhat. There is no denying that the most exciting parts of these essays are the connections to Disney. I found the author's ruminations on their semi-estranged grandfather, Roy Disney, to be specifically jaw-dropping. Weaving in musings on climate change, gentrification, gender identity, and a dying hetero relationship attempting to be anything but (dying and hetero), Hauser creates an interesting, if not confusing, tapestry of her life.