This book was interesting with being both part memoir and part self-help. I found it to be decently educational, especially when it comes to the culture of the author. I learned plenty from this. I also learned about the struggles of the author and her family and this is where I found myself struggling through it. While there were many chapters that I flew through, there were also plenty of them that I struggled to read because they just didn’t hold my attention. Each chapter is followed by additional explanations into the cultural ideas introduced in those chapters and these were the parts I found absolutely unputdownable. I find healing practices to be fascinating and this book did not disappoint for that. 

While I normally don’t rate memoirs, I’m going to rate this one since it’s also part self help. I went 4 stars because it feels right for the feelings this book left me with. While it wasn’t my favorite, it was still good.