By Martha Wainwright. Toronto: Random House Canada, 2022.
Some people's flipping parents!
This is the autobiography of singer-songwriter and member of a highly respected musical family Martha Wainwright.
There are things to like about this book. Wainwright is understatedly funny and showbiz stories are always interesting.
However, one thing jumps out at the reader and practically jumps on you. This woman was never parented. Her mom left her dad, no candidate for father of the year, when the author was just a year old. Her stepfather left when little Martha was hitting puberty, and her mother had her problems. Thus, Wainwright never got the environment and guidance that might have kept her from making some really bad behavioural decisions, from drunkenness to hard drugs to an ill-conceived marriage that ended in a messy divorce. This is in addition to being a baby murderess of three.
Purchase this book if you want to, but part of you may be unable to finish it for various reasons or you'll continue to read it kind of hoping it will end.
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