With or Without You
by:
Domenica Ruta (author)
ISBN:
9781203026448
Edition language: English
3.5 stars. We could all tell stories about our childhood and our parents that would send people reeling. Still, there are people who have gone through a hellish upbringing, one most of us couldn't even fathom. Domenica Ruta is one of those people.Kathy Ruta, the author's mother, is a very troubled w...
There are books people need to get out. Personal works written to someone they love or hate that perhaps should stay personal. Often this is my reaction when I read a memoir. Nice story, but why? Especially when the writer has obvious talent I can't help but question him or her. Why not fictionalize...
I think it's just me, that I am sick of memoirs, and I need to back off reading them. After reading Her and Chanel Bonfire, I really don't care to hear anymore about messed up childhoods and the women who rose above them. I didn't feel like this memoir took me anywhere. I was just reading the aut...
2.5 Stars. This was recommended to me since I was mesmerized by The Glass Castle. Welllllll, they're both memoirs written by women with jacked up childhoods, but that's where the similarities end. Domenica Ruta gives you enough info to let you know her life sucked (addict for a mother, molested, ...
Another gem recommended to me by Powell's Indiespensable, and while at times I was frustrated with the memoirist, With or Without You fits in to the perfect medium between historical figure memoir and tell-all. Domenica Ruta chooses to open her memoir with a scene where she is riding in a car with h...
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