A review by penandpencil
Goodbye, Sweet Girl: A Story of Domestic Violence and Survival by Kelly Sundberg

4.0

It feels weird to critique anything about this very good book as the author is clearly very talented and brave. I really enjoyed the writing style and her story is incredibly moving. It was a riveting memoir, but I’m not sure it’s breaking new ground. Intimate partner violence is obviously horrific, Caleb should rot, and I am so glad she was able to get out in the end and move on.

I found it to be really tough on her parents, maybe there is more to the story, and I understand she wanted to forgive her mother. They were flawed for sure, as we all are, but the implication with her back story is that she couldn’t trust them when things got bad, idk, I may be projecting here.....