A review by an_enthusiastic_reader
I'm Sorry You Feel That Way: The Astonishing But True Story of a Daughter, Sister, Slut, Wife, Mother, and Friend to Man and Dog by Diana Joseph

5.0

Diana Joseph's funny, sweet, and sometimes cynical essays inhabit this collection about the significant men in her life. Joseph's stories add up to a wonderful recounting of love (and its necessary and complicated twin, pain.) Some of the reviews here complain that "nothing happens." But there is an arc that rides from the first essay to the last, and "what happens" is an awakening that comes from the author and channels right into the perceptive reader. Does every memoir have to have some extraordinary (and possible contrived) event that shapes the work? Or can a series of stories about fierce and messy love shed a recognizable light?