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Ten Minutes From Home: A Memoir (2010)

by Beth Greenfield(Favorite Author)

3.73 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0307462056 (ISBN13: 9780307462053)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

Crown

review 1: Ten Minutes From Home is a well written memoir by Beth Greenfield, which tells the heartbreaking story of a car accident that takes the life of Beth's little brother Adam, and her best friend Kristen. In 1982, a drunk driver causes her family's accident. Beth chronicles her years after the accident, growing up in a home full of sadness and despair. She doesn't know how to deal with her grief, and becomes angry with her parents, especially her mother, because her mother outwardly expresses her sadness to anyone and everyone, which becomes an embarrassment to Beth. Beth learns over the course of years how to deal with her grief and loss, with the help of school counselors and therapists. She and her parents grow close again. Although I have never had to deal with thi... mores kind of loss personally, I felt Beth's pain....her sadness and guilt, and completely understood her actions as she grew into a teenager, acting out in order to receive her parents attention. This is a very good memoir, one I will remember for a long time.
review 2: This was a great book that I was fortunate enough to win an advanced reader copy thru Read It Foreword. I liked it a lot and love the author's writing style. It was a deeply personal story that the author experienced thirty years ago, losing her adopted brother in an automobile accident and losing her best friend, Kristen. In the process she suffered a broken leg and to go thru her own grief and the grief of why was I spared. You can definitely tell that she is a writer and tells the story as if the reader is actually there, experiencing her pain and loss. I really enjoyed this book, it was a little bit depressing however, but a great read anyways. I also love some of the song references and some of the descriptions of things from my childhood that I almost forgotten. less

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