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Author:
Cecily Strong
Publisher:
Simon & Schuster
Date:
August 10, 2021
A memoir from the SNL cast member Cecily Strong about grieving the death of her cousinâand embracing the life-affirming lessons he taught herâamid the coronavirus pandemic.
What The Reviewers Say
Strong brings us uneasily into her world of pain and her struggle to learn joy again.
Strong shows her serious side in this uneven if earnest memoir about the death of her cousin.
Her prose is sincere yet largely flavorless. Without establishing a narrative arc, the author offers little in the way of revelation, for herself or readers, delivering a collection of non sequiturs, text messages, banal confessions, and scattershot notes typed on her phone. Fans hoping for details about her experiences at SNL will be disappointed—and also surprised by the lack of humor. The author repeatedly describes herself and this work as messy, which is an apt assessment.
