A review by suchsweetsorrow89
Somebody's Daughter by Ashley C. Ford

emotional reflective tense fast-paced

3.0

while ford speaks about very real matter sin her life with such transparency and intimacy-- memoirs are just not for me. that being said, she writes about the events and feelings that she has throughout her journey of becoming the person she is today in a way where you can really feel it with her. you feel her confusion regarding understanding the abuse and love she received from her mother, her longing to just be felt as a daughter by her father, and her endless search for love and an understanding of herself and the world. not gonna lie, there were parts where i just cried because i related to them heavily. for me, what would have made this book just a bit better was if she leaned more into those feelings, since those were often the strongest parts in the narrative. alternatively, it would have been interesting had she played with the writing style a bit more (there were certainly moments where she did, but i think just a littllleeee more experimental could have really nailed in the emotional aspect of it all). i also think that while the book title is about belonging, there were only few moments in which those themes really came to life for me. really, i give this book a 3.5/5 stars, it wasn't bad!! but memoir writing in this way has just never really done it for me. 
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