Rememberings

I don't know how to rate this because it feels like rating her, and I can't do that. I listened to the audiobook initially because the library waitlist had it before other versions, but preferred hearing it in her own voice--she snorts and laughs at herself sometimes, which is delightfully intimate. But the years about her childhood will break your heart, and her talking about her future and her son Shane's future will also break your heart. Don't necessarily stay for the latter part of the story, when she (as she admits) doesn't have the material to draw from because she was in such a state of trauma. z"l

Heartbreaking trauma. O'Connor comes through as frank and likeable, but it is clear (and clearly stated) that the first third of this was written in a good state of mind for reflecting on a distraught childhood, and the rest was thrown together after further trauma that's going to need future effort and space to sort out.