Member Review

While I never want to criticize a memoir, there was quite a bit that frustrated me here. I appreciated the author's account of her childhood, her education, the devastating loss of her father, a horrific car crash, her struggle with addiction, and her marriage ... but once we get to her marriage and pregnancy - I felt like she put up a barrier with her readers. She remains vulnerable and takes responsibility for certain mistakes yet she not only holds us at arms length as she recounts the sensational headlines that she was swept up in, it begins to read in a detached way and I was no longer captivated by the story but struggling through it.
The author's recovery is a celebration and her life and accomplishments are certainly worth reading but the abrupt change in writing left something to be desired from this memoir for me.

Thanks to Girl Friday Books and NetGalley for providing me with an ARC in exchange for my honest review. Home Is Within You was released on April 25, 2023.