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.
I chanced upon this TV movie that I liked of the same title, ably played by Skeet Ulrich and Keri Russell. I learned that it was based on a book. I have a penchant nowadays of tracing movies to the books they’re based from. More and more, I notice these things as I’ve opened a bookstore. Not every book gets a movie tie-in cover.
The Man in the Brown Suit
By Agatha Christie
I don’t know why it took me so long to pick up Agatha Christie. She is like your plucky aunt who can say everything, except her voice is in the young heroine on board a luxury liner to South Africa, a fat noble man, a dashing secret agent, and a charming socialite only too eager to help in more exciting affairs.
Eat a Peach by David Chang
David Chang of Momofuku fame - There is no doubt he is a brilliant man, daring to the point of being offensive, passionate, aggressive, intense, irreverent, submitting to noone. I can see how these qualities in him led only to his climbing success.