A review by mam22nov
Jell-O Girls: A Family History by Allie Rowbottom

2.0

Not my cup of tea. I thought there were a few too many liberties taken with the characters' inner feelings and motivations. I felt she was personally struggling to explain or understand the women who came before her in her family, but that it was proving difficult to detach from a modern-day feminist viewpoint to get a clear picture of what they might have been thinking or feeling. I wondered why she didn't use any excerpts from her mother's notebooks, if it felt too personal or wasn't a good example of her mother's authentic voice. It just felt a little self-indulgent.