The End of the World As We Know It by Robert Goolrick214 pages
Completed 1/31/10
Until page 160, this book seemed to just drone on. But at that point in this book, the author wakes up as a four year old boy being molested by his father while family members snore nearby. In fact, there was an entire chapter of just run-on sentences questioning 'how they went on.'
This memoir seemed to be a cathartic healing process for the author, rather than an entertaining memoir to the reader. In fact, "morbidly funny" are the words on the cover used by a critic to describe the book; this was anything but funny. Instead I found it sad; the putting-ons of appearance, the facade the family had built up, and the anguish of Goolrick throughout the years.
I feel like perhaps this book was more suited towards a male audience; an entire chapter was dedicated to male puberty, in a way that didn't seem necessary to the book, in my opinion. I have veered away from memoirs as of late because of their plainness; I should have done the same with this one, as well.
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