The Harm in Asking

I was asking for trouble when I decided to read this book. Sara is not my generation. I knew that going in. I am not her anticipated audience. I knew that. She makes a living by writing to startle people a little. I knew that.


What was I thinking?


It was a painful read. Barron is blunt and it's hard for people of my generation to listen people of hers, who appear to have slid through life without facing of the real issues of, say, people who don't have clean water in Africa, and yet who whine endlessly about the little disappointments of the universe. I had to keep reminding myself that little disappointments can feel like lack of clean water, perhaps.