Why Didn't You Tell Me?

I will read a memoir about basically anything and I enjoyed much of the storytelling about the author's early life, but once she went off to college and the book was halfway finished without much hint that the big “secret” was going to be revealed any time soon, I began to list. As other reviewers have pointed out, the book seems to oscillate between good and bad memories of the same people to a confusing degree - not that you can't feel multiple ways about one person, but I think perhaps more time or reflection would have made the overall tone more level and easier to work through. I wouldn't blame the “secret” heavy marketing on the author but for the title of the book, which really seems to imply we'll get a taste of SOMETHING much earlier to carry us through the exposition. Overall would probably be low on my list of memoirs to pick up, especially if you're not already a junkie for the genre like myself.