The Tortoise and the Hare Entry No. 6

Tell Me Everything: a Memoir
By Minka Kelly

A powerful memoir written by a woman trying desperately to make sense of and make peace with her history. The book traces Kelly’s life as a stripper’s daughter to a frightened teen left to fend for herself to a surgical nurse and the Friday Night Lights actress that we have come to know.

By necessity, you hurtle the events of her childhood with her. There is no time to wallow; everything seems par for the course. You roll with the punches; survival takes primordial consideration. 

After finishing the book, you are met with a profound weight hanging around your shoulders, as if waiting for its reckoning. Now, after you’ve read through all the events that unfolded in her life, you are left only with her person. Surely, no one comes out unscathed through that. She was like a clean palette to be coloured so lavishly by human frailty. She overcomes with unhumanly compassion.

A hare kind of read written by an intelligent woman. I only wish I had this memoir to sell.