Ceraphina

This one really stuck with me. It was an engrossing little novel about stardom and whether the cost of it is too great for just one person.

Kawakami just gets it.

I'll probably be blamed for being too much of a realist and pessimistic but Walls life journey is not unique. Too many kids grow up in poverty, have mentally unwell parents, and experience abuse before they are even teenagers. Especially in America, from the North to the South, East and West, majority of our population struggle and those struggles are passed down onto kids. But where this memoir differs from the same story we all know is Walls writing talent and the tone established within the pages. It is a feat to successfully immerse readers into the same terror you felt without overdoing it with just anger or sadness. It is a strong and beautiful memoir.

A stronger Didion read for me.

This was a fun and icky horror. I don't think the writing style is quite for me but I did enjoy my time reading this in the end.