A review by withherheadstuckinabook
Ten Steps to Nanette: A Memoir Situation by Hannah Gadsby

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative relaxing slow-paced

4.75

I remembered seeing the completely deserved hype over Hannah Gadsby’s “Ten Steps to Nanette” and thinking I so wanna read it! I also thought I might like to listen to the audiobook (however there’s a good six month wait at my library for the audiobook) so when the physical copy became available I grabbed the chance to read this powerhouse of a memoir.
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Reading Hannah’s upbringing and her way of describing the visceral feeling of not belonging hurt me to my core (which is what she wanted with Nanette) and reading about her upbringing in Tasmania was incredible. I had to put it down at some points and take a breath that I did not realise I was holding in. Hannah detectives her relationship with her mother in detail and I love the note “out of all the humans on Earth, I love my mum the most fiercely.” Hannah also gives context moments to explain why things happened the way it happened which was interesting to me at least. 
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