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Elephant Girl: A Human Story (2011)

by Jane Devin(Favorite Author)

3.64 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

1463525435 (ISBN13: 9781463525439)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Createspace

review 1: Amazing story telling. While I read through it once I went back and immersed myself in the whole telling again. Reading sections and walking away for an hour, a day to just digest what it was I had just read. There was darkness, glimmers of light, joyful moments over shadowed and in parts, there was a clear reflection into the life I have lived and am living. Deeply moving, but under it all, I kept on cheering for the author and finished again with a deep breath and smile. Honestly, it left me inspired and it's likely one I will re-read.
review 2: Not all stories have happy endings, and not all lives are worth living. Elephant Girl is a memoir about the echoes of an abusive past that continue to ring out through a person's history. People in the book continuous... morely tell the narrator, "the universe has a plan for you." But pain doesn't always have a reason, and dragging oneself up from poverty is anything but revelatory, or wholesome. At times tedious and slow, at times cringeworthy, I still read Elephant Girl in a few sittings. The narrator seems to have a painful, almost autism-like misunderstanding of human emotion and her own impact on others. I found myself feeling her pain, but wincing at the lack of learning and understanding of others. It's a long read, but almost a relief from feel good memoirs of people climbing their way into luck. less

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