A review by cghegan
Goodbye, Sweet Girl: A Story of Domestic Violence and Survival by Kelly Sundberg

Did not finish book. Stopped at 15%.
Though trauma is not processed, held, or told in a linear way, the narrative “bounced” in a disjointed, disconnected way that didn’t add to the overall meaning or experience for the reader. For such a profoundly important narrative, I found myself feeling… shamefully, annoyed by the narrative voice. It had more “writerly” tendencies in its confessional than the support group tells I’ve been blessed to attend, but not enough handle on craft and narrative structure to make it a memoir I’m compelled to finish as a reader.
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