I Am, I Am, I Am - book review: An extraordinary memoir by Maggie O’Farrell

Next is a cold event that you should not be afraid of facts and emotions, deciding this amazing book's tone.

When the novelist O'Farrell managed to escape death, I remembered 17 times. There are almost drowning, life-threatening abortions, and amebic parasites. Chile has car, turbulent aircraft, and knife chip robbery

O'Farrell is known for his emotional insight as award winning writer of seven novels, including "Thermal Wave Guide" and "Necessary to be in this place". I, I, I explored the failure of a doctor who I did not hear her medical history, caused her to die at birth and caused the arrogant anger of the encounter physician.

But at the end of the same chapter, the surgeon after the emergency caesarean operation "sews and nails me". An anonymous "beige man" in the operating room shows her with a moving conclusion. Easy and sympathy. story

The outstanding feature of this book is to respect that O'Farrell shows her secondary role. Whether it is a former boyfriend, her husband, her friend, or her child, she tells you what you need to know and does not betray people around her.

In all of these events, I feel like they will contribute to O'Farrell's career as a writer. Flying to Hong Kong by plane, "The plane suddenly falls, falls, falls like a rock thrown from a cliff".

O'Farrell expresses my condolences for the degree and school life I was disappointed with. But by the end of this chapter, "During the monsoon season the rain is constant ... I started writing."

I, I am a special book. All the experience of O'Farrell is sufficient in itself, but in general they are talking about extraordinary life to date. Writing is exquisite suppression, more emotionally powerful

This is exceptional courage. It is the courage to survive these "17 death pen" and the courage to write these brushes with this burning frankness. It is a book of deep influence, power and life.

About Karen Green's recent memoirs When I first read the amazing comments of Suzanne Scanlon, I felt like I had encountered a new form in the book review. This book may need it: Bough Down is a memoir of a woman, her husband has recently lost due to suicide, and if you have a decent feeling of humans The memoir is difficult to write. These books are records of events with few survivors. The usual method seems to be inappropriate

When I began writing the memoir of "Serendipity Road" it would not be a memoir. This will be a short story about the extraordinary life of my Cambodian wife. I included myself in the story and had to gradually expand and become a memoir. The story of Sopheak sets the tone of this book, which is a work of nonfiction magical realism. In my first draft, "Cambodian Ghost Story" is the first chapter that includes me. It must be because ghosts told Sopheak that I hid something about Australian children. I was once. They know that they are pregnant, but because of my determination to be responsible for children who are not biologically afraid of reaction to pregnancy, I avoid this topic by e - mail. Ghost is "an unprecedented black man" who was a frequent visitor to the restaurant where she was working. He died and apparently lived in a mango tree outside our home.

I talked about all memoirs I decided not to talk about (Emi ly Deprang, Sharon, 8-28-13). When I sold a book about my dirty first marriage, I was crazy. "What hinders me is that the quality of memoirs is related to honesty and the transactions of my books are based on lies.I live in peace with the past and share the lessons with the world Although the writer is a Cinderella all-or-nothing type deal, it turned out to be a rabbit like a velvety.The excellent autobiography of the body is based on life and death, And an attractive little book about what happens from one person to another If you do not want to hear this bad news, you should not read it, but as you get older you need to go to the toilet many times It helps to explain why there is.