A review by beth_s98
American Rose: A Nation Laid Bare: The Life and Times of Gypsy Rose Lee by Karen Abbott

adventurous emotional medium-paced

4.0

This book was written in a way that made it very easy to read, and I thought it was constructed in a way that allowed the different versions of the story to intermingle. While I didn’t love how the textual notes were structured from a historian perspective, the book still felt very well-researched. The story of Gypsy and the over-arching story of burlesque was well written and interesting to read. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Death, Toxic relationship, Pedophilia, Animal death, Child abuse, Murder, Body shaming, Cancer, and Alcoholism

This book touches on a lot of stuff that could be troubling, but nothing is described with lots of details.