memoir has become one of my favorite forms of literature in the past few years. I just can't get enough of them. although I tend to avoid celebrity memoirs in favor of Memoirs that focus on Ordinary People or people who face extraordinary odds. you don't have to say you love me by Sherman alexie has been one of my favorites in a long time for one particular reason. it is written in a very non-linear and disorganized manner.
so many Memoirs tend to be written chronologically from when a person was born through their childhood and adversity into they became as an adult. it can sometimes feel a bit formulaic and sometimes a bit worn out. Sherman alexie's memoir has like 80 chapters, or maybe it was 100, I can't recall. some chapters are three or four sentences long, some chapters are poems, and all of them are various snapshots from entirely different time periods of his life and it was so fun and fascinating and made my ADHD brain happy. it kind of felt like if somebody took five or six journals they had written over their life tore all the pages out and Scattered them around a large room, and you end up collecting them all in a random order and making sense of the person's life with each new page. I honestly wish more Memoirs were written this way, and I imagine it's how I would want to write my own if I ever did.
. full disclosure, I actually was not sure I was going to stick with this book and for the first hour or two of the audiobook I almost gave up but about 3 hours I got really hooked and was thoroughly engrossed the rest of the time
by InvisibleAstronomer