A review by saranies
The Real Lolita: The Kidnapping of Sally Horner and the Novel That Scandalized the World by Sarah Weinman

3.0

I picked this up because I thought it was going to be about Sally Horner. Instead, it's half a true crime book and half a brief biography of Nabokov when he was trying to write Lolita. I do feel that stories like Sally's are overlooked in favor of the salacious focus on the criminal, but I'm not sure that I really learned anything new that I didn't read in the excerpted parts. Sally's story is heartbreaking.