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A review by soupwitch86
We're Going to Need More Wine: Stories That Are Funny, Complicated, and True by Gabrielle Union
4.0
This is for the audio book version, I tend to prefer audio books for memoirs.
I didn't know much about Gabrielle Union before listening to her memoir and I really enjoyed it. She is direct, funny, and relatable. She talks about her relation to race through being a Black woman, a Black actress, a Black (step) mother, and how it changed through the years.
Union was also very honest and real about her CW: rape. About her conflicting feelings about being grateful for certain things within a horrific situation. The fact that she hasn't and will never get over it, her moving between being a victim, survivor, victim, survivor.
Gabrielle is pretty open about mistakes she has made, what she wishes would have been done differently, owning her shortcomings in her relationships with other people. I feel like I say this with so many audio books, but it felt like I was sitting with a friend, her just talking to me.
I didn't know much about Gabrielle Union before listening to her memoir and I really enjoyed it. She is direct, funny, and relatable. She talks about her relation to race through being a Black woman, a Black actress, a Black (step) mother, and how it changed through the years.
Union was also very honest and real about her CW: rape. About her conflicting feelings about being grateful for certain things within a horrific situation. The fact that she hasn't and will never get over it, her moving between being a victim, survivor, victim, survivor.
Gabrielle is pretty open about mistakes she has made, what she wishes would have been done differently, owning her shortcomings in her relationships with other people. I feel like I say this with so many audio books, but it felt like I was sitting with a friend, her just talking to me.