A review by josephinecatherine
In My Skin: A Memoir by Kate Holden

challenging dark emotional medium-paced

5.0

In any other context, this would be a horror. Kate Holden wields her pen so well that gruesome, gory, ugly truths can be read so easily. The storytelling shows how easily addiction is to fall into, and how destructive it is to get out of even when there is the will. She is honest in her portrayal of herself and I can empathise with that. While not a drug addict, I felt myself reflected in those scenes with her mother. This speaks to addiction to pain and self-loathing as much as it does addiction to drugs. 

An important and hard and beautiful read.