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17/100Critics
50/100Scholars
Author:
Jami Attenberg
Publisher:
Ecco
Date:
January 11, 2022
From New York Times bestselling author Jami Attenberg comes a memoir about unlocking and embracing her creativity-and how it saved her life.
What The Reviewers Say
[Attenberg's] distinctive, personable voice, which shines on social media and in her writing-focused newsletters, gets a full-on outing here, with intimate glimpses of her youth.
Thrumming along underneath all this, animating the book, is Attenberg’s life’s organizing principle: the drive to become a writer. She brings to the subject her gifts as a novelist: a fierce impulse toward honesty, a companionably cranky voice and an interest in the complicated, bobbing and weaving ways in which people navigate their desires.
To say this book was a delight to read is putting it lightly. As a writer, I felt instantly connected to Attenberg’s notions.
I don’t mean it as a criticism when I say that Attenberg’s book has an untidy, artless structure. Yes, its narrative, which moves repeatedly back and forth in time, is often in danger of seeming repetitive, and perhaps it comes with one too many Zoom meetings.
