Reviews for Her Hidden Story

The average rating for Her Hidden Story based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2012-10-01 00:00:00 Mark Thayer I love baseball (as a fan) so I thought I would love this. I was treated to a Q&A with the author during my memoir class and he is the nicest person. He also gave a lot of great advice. So I feel guilty saying I didn't love this book. I think I was expecting something much more lush and atmospheric, but the prose is a little more lean. The narrator reveals emotional vulnerabilities that aren't typical for male narrators, and I admired that. The story centers around the narrator's relationship with a coach who is a bully. Maybe because I never played sports, and I'm not a guy, I had a hard time while reading being able to understand if the narrator admired or hated the coach. I guess that would be understandable from the teenage narrator's point of view - I'm sure the teenager might have felt ambivalent. But the adult voice could have made it clear from retrospect. There were also allusions to a rough relationship with the father, but that is kept out of the scope of the story. I kind of wanted to understand that better. The book also starts out on the topics of baseball and literature, but ends up being more about this troubling relationship with a coach. I kind of felt like I started out on one journey and ended up on another.

Review # 2 was written on 2014-07-15 00:00:00 Erica Duvall I'm not a big sports fan, but this memoir of growing up dedicated to baseball--both playing and watching--is about much more than the sport. It's about what it meant to be a kid growing up in a certain time and about how one can gracefully handles the difficulties that life hands us.