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In Spite Of Everything: A Memoir (2011)

by Susan Gregory Thomas(Favorite Author)

3.16 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

1400068827 (ISBN13: 9781400068821)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Random House

review 1: I went back and forth about this book. This is one woman's story about reconciling her childhood to her own marriage and raising her children as a self comfessed helicopter parent of Generation X. There are moments of this book that i could genuinely relate to, but those moments were eventually overshadowed by what I thought at times was her whining and trying really hard to draw general conclusions about an entire generation through her own lens. The piece about the dissolution of her marriage and adjusting to her new life and adjusting her kids to the new arrangement were poignant, but thats a lot of pages to read for a couple good chapters.
review 2: An overwritten, self-indulgent, under-researched memoir that redeems itself, a little, in the final chapter. ... moreThomas takes her own experience, props it up with stats from a study or two, and claims it represents her entire generation. Nonsense! She also expects us to sympathize with her because she and her husband bought a tony townhouse they couldn't afford, and indulged in two lavish kitchen renovations. Gross! I eye-rolled my way through everything but Thomas's closing account of her first Christmas as a divorcee with her confused, unhappy kids. less

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