Name All the Animals: A Memoir
 

Name All the Animals: A Memoir

by Alison Smith

Alison Smith?s close-knit Catholic family is the very picture of contentment--right up until the day her 18-year-old brother is killed in a car accident. In Name All the Animals, Smith walks readers through the breakdown and breakthroughs of her family in the days and years that follow.
Cleanly written and only occasionally maudlin, this memoir reads like a gritty coming of age novel.... (read more)

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Karin
  • Rated 5 stars

This book was so strange for me. I bought it because the subject matter was interesting to me and then...I opened it and discovered that it was about my hometown. I went to school with the author, although I was 2/3 years ahead of her and so was completely oblivious to her teenage self. I had already gone to college when the events related in the book happened. But the strangeness came from reading a book which was somehow about my life too. I knew exactly who she was talking about. I...

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Dena C
  • Rated 2 stars

I think it was fine enough book, but I hate when memoirs cover one part of their life, and then they skip ahead to 30 years later but totally leave you hanging on some of the details. It ticks me off. Let me know what you are up to now, and how thet tragedies of your early life shaped you. That is just my opinion

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  • Rated 3.726027 stars
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  • Rated 4.5 stars
 

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  • roblarson

    roblarson said:

    It took me awhile to get into the story, but once I did I really enjoyed it. Very well written and insightful. I wish she would have elaborated on what happened to her mother, though.

    posted Thursday, September 20 2007
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