Lost & Found: A Memoir
by Kathryn Slattery
[GuidepostsBooks, $17.99]
release date: March 2008
Lost & Found is a book Kathryn Slattery needed to write. Unfortunately, it’s not one that everyone will enjoy reading. It’s a painful story. The memoir recounts a sad childhood in a dysfunctional family, then a young adult life spent trying to make sense of it. Thankfully the story’s tone begins to change when Slattery encounters Jesus’ grace in her adult life and then makes peace with her childhood as she cares for her ailing elderly mother. While some readers will enjoy the flawless writing and even identify with the struggles of the writer (an alcoholic father, eating disorder, chronic anxiety), one can’t help but feel weary of the memoir format.
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