Lindsey's review
I'm Looking Through You: Growing Up Haunted: A Memoir
by Jennifer Finney Boylan (Goodreads author!)
Lindsey's review
I'm Looking Through You: Growing Up Haunted: A Memoir by Jennifer Finney Boylan (Goodreads author!)
Lindsey's review
rating:
I wasn't expecting to really like this book since I haven't read a lot of well-written memoirs, but Jenny comes off as so witty and down to earth it was refreshing. Given the challenges Jenny faced growing up, and I in no way mean to minimize them, I found myself thinking does this person realize how lucky she is? What great family and friends. But every time I was asking myself those questions, Jenny addressed them, by one of her friends telling her something similar. It was also nice to see that not all people suck. There are a lot of people willing to accept things they might not understand simply because they care about a person. In the end I think people are more alike than different. And in Jenny's case, I think maybe she was lucky to have been distracted by her gender issues, because I sure as hell would have wanted to get out of that house!
