We’re back in the land of the memoir, and this one is a doozy. My review copy of I Never Promised You a Goodie Bag was provided courtesy of LuxuryReading.com, which also hosted the original (shorter) post of this book review on June 30, 2012 (available here).

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I Never Promised You a Goodie Bag

What a clever, sassy title. Almost as clever and sassy as Jennifer Gilbert herself. The Jennifer Gilbert of the opening part of this extremely well-written, thoughtful, and deftly-handled memoir about a life interrupted, that is. That Jennifer Gilbert is nearly lost for much of the book – and many many years – after a horrific violent crime that occurs when she is barely an adult. She is found again, mercifully and thankfully, before the book closes (that’s not really a spoiler; you’d hardly expect a memoir to not travel a full circle, now would you?), leaving us, hopefully, many more years of Jennifer’s particular brand of sass – and hopefully another foray into book-writing.
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