A review by dllluebbe
We Are All Shipwrecks: A Memoir by Kelly Grey Carlisle

4.0

We Are All Shipwrecks is a lovely, moving memoir about a childhood filled with love and confusion and embarrassment...and also a houseboat, porn store, and murdered mother. There's something striking about the juxtaposition of these totally "abnormal" childhood experiences mixed with the absolutely "normal" growing pains that all children go through. Carlisle's voice is matter-of-fact, relaying all the strange revelations with a straightforwardness that allows the reader to be swept along in the narrative.