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The Source Of All Things: A Memoir (2011)

by Tracy Ross(Favorite Author)

3.67 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

1439172978 (ISBN13: 9781439172971)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Free Press

review 1: A particularly interesting read right after Strayed's Wild. Several of the same motifs: using nature to heal after loss, facing fears in the wilderness. It is perhaps the book I wish was written about Kilimanjaro (since I am about to go there) because unlike other accounts this author loves and reveres the outdoors. So many Kili books are long complaints about lack of comfort. I want to say why didn't you stay home?
review 2: I just finished this book yesterday, and definitely needed some time to...think? recover? I don't know how many emotions I ran through reading this memoir. I laughed a bit, cried, and got so angry I wanted to hunt her family down and give them a piece of my mind (not that they would've cared). This was literally an emotional rollercoaster.... more It's amazing how strong Tracy was/is. I felt myself in awe of how she kept pushing on through all adversity, and although sometimes she wasn't very graceful about it, she still managed. The last chapter had me completely devestated. I don't know how she kept from killing her Dad, or at least, never speaking to anyone in her immediate family again.I found myself hating the mother more than I could ever hate the father, and that's saying something. To me, the woman was so entirely pathetic and dispicable, I don't know how Tracy ever subjected herself to that woman's presence. But I guess love is a very strong factor and I couldn't help but know how much Tracy did love her parents. That love and her desire to be loved for who she was, kept her from writing off her mother and father forever.Sometimes it seems not loving at all...unwrapping that emotional chain from squeezing us to death, would make it far easier to turn away from those who have the power of hurting us the most.I never doubted Tracy's love for her father, or her mother, but I do feel that even though she may have forgiven them, she will Never forget. Trust has been irrevocably broken and a family that once had the greatest potential of being normal and happy were robbed of that chance because of parents who never deserved the gift that Tracy was. less

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