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The Zookeeper's Wife by Diane Ackerman
2.0
This is an amazing story the needed to be told, but the enumerable, tedious listing of unnecessary items was so difficult to trudge through! It felt like I was forcing myself through the book because of all of the useless page fillers.
The One You Want to Marry (And Other Identities I've Had): A Memoir by Sophie Santos
3.0
I struggle because I was present for part of the middle and high school years. There is a lot of the content that I know to be true, and I praise her courage for sharing those events. Unfortunately, there are also portions describing concrete events that simply did not happen. The author, by virtue of time and trauma, may have misremembered as opposed to intentionally misrepresented these facts, but if an event was important enough to make your memoir, it definitely should have happened. Because of that perspective, I wondered how wide of a brush was used to paint the truth throughout the other portions. She definitely lends a unique perspective to handling her cultural identity crisis. Either way, congrats of the publication of this memoir. It’s definitely a noteworthy accomplishment you can write about in a follow up installment discussing your next 30 years of life.