Runaway

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.