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A review by jessdekkerreads
Splinters: A Memoir by Leslie Jamison
5.0
I have a hard time answering the question “what’s your favorite book?” - it seems impossible to me, but now, 30 pages away from finishing this book, Splinters by Leslie Jamison, I know I can definitively say this is my favorite nonfiction book. I’ve underlined almost every page, I’ve read passages out loud to my four month old daughter, I’ve reread lines over and over, I’ve carried it with me everywhere I go, and I don’t want it to end.
It’s Jamison’s memoir, about the grief that came at the end of her marriage, about her intense love for her newborn daughter, about how as a woman you splinter yourself and try to be so many things to so many different people.
Jamison’s prose is so evocative that I often have to remind myself I’m not reading a novel.
In my eyes, as a mother to two young girls, this memoir is perfect to me. Absolutely perfect.
Thank you so much @littlebrown for this ARC.
It’s Jamison’s memoir, about the grief that came at the end of her marriage, about her intense love for her newborn daughter, about how as a woman you splinter yourself and try to be so many things to so many different people.
Jamison’s prose is so evocative that I often have to remind myself I’m not reading a novel.
In my eyes, as a mother to two young girls, this memoir is perfect to me. Absolutely perfect.
Thank you so much @littlebrown for this ARC.