Melania and Me

I read this on a whim as it came up in my library browsing and I'd heard from a friend it was worth a read. It's interesting and sadly believable and tells her detailed story of her friendship with Melania Trump that became her association with the First Lady as an adviser. I think we may all have had people in our lives that were not who we thought they were, that hurt us in ways sometimes small and sometimes large, and that is a portion of the book that is relatable. As some other reviewers mentioned, I also got a little stuck on her comparing her trials with her grandparents' trials in the holocaust. For a person of such privilege to make such a comparison didn't feel right. Perhaps it was an unfortunate wording of that section, who knows? One portion toward the end of the book did strike me as so true in 2021: “I have learned that when it comes to politics, not knowing is not okay. For many years, I was apolitical. That was a mistake. I now know that is not an option—it's a luxury. And a luxury no one can afford. One's moral values and political beliefs clearly go hand in hand, and for me to have believed otherwise was naive and foolish”.