Fred Shaw reviews Lori Jakiela’s new memoir, Belief Is Its Own Kind of Truth, Maybe:
“By portraying her family and friends as complicated individuals, not clichés, Jakiela allows the reader to see their humanity, warts and all. She writes of well-intentioned parents’ wariness toward a girl’s education by saying, ‘it was better to be caught with a cigarette than a book. It was better for our mothers to catch us getting fingered by a boy than catch us on the couch reading. Reading was uppity… My mother called it lazy.’ Jakiela’s candor highlights the dichotomy of her difficult, yet loving relationship with her adoptive mother. It also speaks volumes about outdated attitudes towards women’s roles.”
Lori Jakiela’s latest memoir explores adoption and family http://t.co/2k3hjseDLU
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