A review by gray_05_sea
American Daughter: A Memoir by Stephanie Thornton Plymale, Elissa Wald

3.0

Stephanie Thornton Plymale has absolutely been through a lot, and is a survivor. For someone with inconsistent schooling and who didn’t learn to read until after 10, she wrote a decent memoir. That said, the writing style was too colloquial to my taste and the narrative arch didn’t build throughout the book. She went through a few years in her life where her marriage was rocky, her mom was dying and she was trying to learn more about family… but the flashbacks pacing didn’t work for me, and also, somehow the story seemed too linear.