A review by claire60
This Really Isn't about You by Jean Hannah Edelstein

3.0

I had heard a lot about this book and how it was an important book about bereavement. Its very much one young woman's experience of bereavement that causes her to leave Berlin where she was happy and return to New York and the trials and tribulations that this causes her. I did enjoy the writing in places and she did make me laugh, at other times I found it self indulgent and typical of so many other books that seem to be around at the moment, particularly the part about how hard it is to live in London. Given that the author is American, it is perhaps less surprising that she gets funnier when writing about her own country. I'm also not sure that this book would be off use to anyone going through a bereavement, as she doesn't really reflect on that as much as the hype would have you believe.