by Cindy | Dec 15, 2009 | Memoir
Rating: When Skateboards Will Be Free: A Memoir of a Political Childhood, by Said Sayrafiezadeh. The Dial Press (2009), 287 pages. There was a time when I couldn’t get enough of tragic childhood memoirs. I would be appalled and heartbroken on behalf...
by Cindy | Aug 13, 2009 | Memoir
Rating: The Only Girl in the Car, by Kathy Dobie. The Dial Press (2003), 240 pages. This book has much in common with the memoir Lucky. Both authors describe a rape in excruciating detail, while at the same time writing about their families and their years...