corrigan's Reviews (451)

I know I'm super late to this party, but this was awesome.

Not a bad book, but there's a lot of filler. The most interesting parts are barely touched upon -- her uncle's alcoholism, her enlightening college experiences, the toll of her father's death on her older brother (who more or less disappears from the story), the impact of the changing face of Kennedy's America on her hometown, which lacked any people of color at all. Even the Kennedy assassination and its connection to her family is introduced late in the book and only discussed on a surface level; they were a family that lost their father and her mother chose to relate to them. I would much rather have heard more about these things than read an entire chapter that discussed what she imagines a standard work day at the paper mill would have been like.