From Erin Keane, editor in chief at Salon , comes a touching memoir about the search for truths in the stories families tell. In 1970, Erin Keane's mother ran away from home for the first time. She was thirteen years old.
Reviews with the most likes.
hmmmm I picked this up because I knew the author vaguely through the Louisville Moth scene. Otherwise I might not have read it, and I think overall it might appeal more to a Gen X audience. There's a lot of specific pop culture unpacking and references that I only somewhat got–a LOT of talk about how much she had loved Woody Allen's movies and felt betrayed by him being a creep, whereas I feel like in my lifetime I have pretty much always known he was a creep? But I can relate to being surprised by other pop culture creeps.
The stuff about her mom was like...I would have loved to have read a book from her mom's POV? But at the same time I enjoyed her journalistic attempts to investigate her own family. And like, you know that tweet that's like “Moms will be washing dishes and all of a sudden tell you the most depressing story you've ever heard”? Very that.
