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A review by claudiaslibrarycard
Cinderland by Amy Jo Burns
emotional
reflective
slow-paced
2.5
Okay first I want to say I love Mercury and Shiner, so I came to this to complete Amy Jo Burns backlist. It is a very different type of book, putting aside that it is a memoir Burns uses a different writing style here that feels very detached and made it very hard for me to feel connected as a reader.
Having worked in abuse prevention, I wonder if this was a coping strategy to write about the events of this memoir. But also from my professional perspective, I was bothered by the frequent use of "we," "us," "his girls," and so on. Burns wrote her memoir about sexual abuse, not a collective group memoir. I think again that may be a coping strategy, but I didn't feel comfortable about generalizing and applying her perspective and feelings to the other victims.
Having worked in abuse prevention, I wonder if this was a coping strategy to write about the events of this memoir. But also from my professional perspective, I was bothered by the frequent use of "we," "us," "his girls," and so on. Burns wrote her memoir about sexual abuse, not a collective group memoir. I think again that may be a coping strategy, but I didn't feel comfortable about generalizing and applying her perspective and feelings to the other victims.