ksrousseau 's review for:

Ten Steps to Nanette: A Memoir Situation by Hannah Gadsby

5.0

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I began reading Ten Steps to Nanette, and quickly realized I needed to see the Nanette show. I paused in my reading and headed to Netflix to view it. It was an amazing and unsettling experience of a comedy/not-comedy performance. I went back to reading the book with a new frame of reference. Hannah Gadsby tells her life story often using a very witty style of writing and turning events into comic episodes. But beware, this is not a funny book. Gadsby explores her story as she struggled to come to terms with her lesbianism, her diagnoses of ADHD and ASD and her non-typical mental life in the context of world that often rejected and abused her. She talks about her caring but off-kilter family relationships, her body dysmorphia, her bouts of panic, anger and depression, and, eventually, her ability to be secure in her own identity. It is an astounding and rewarding read.