A Good Enough Daughter: A Memoir Book

Actually a 3.5, maybe even creeping to the 4.0. Alix Kates Shulman is a very good writer in that what she writes is easy to read even if it is not deeply interesting. In this book she seems to be justifying why she was an ungrateful child who neglected her parents once she reached adulthood - at least that is how it read to me. She seems not to have been quite so awful as she would have you believe but perhaps a little spoiled and entitled. The extended family was not covered in as much depth as I would have liked but as the book's core was her own little nucleus what I wanted and what was essential are not the same thing. In the end it was a good enough book to fill a very long series of international flights and you can't expect too much more than that from a cheap and random selection off a secondhand trolley at the Strand Bookstore in NYC.