Reckoning: A Memoir

Szubanski is an unexpectedly fantastic writer and this memoir is about her whole family with herself as a product of that family. It holds its own even when you take it as a family story removed from celebrity. It particularly focuses on Szubanski's formative relationship with her father, who was an assassin in the Polish resistance during the Nazi occupation of Warsaw in WWII. Szubanski weaves the stories of both her parents together with the story of her own childhood and the development of her own psychological schemas, habits, sense of humour, queer idenitity, and public persona. I listened to the audiobook via the ABC Listen App where Australians can listen to Szubanski herself read it.