Travels Through Aqua, Green, and Blue: A Memoir by Mary E. Gregory – Review by Erica Shoebridge

Travels Through Aqua, Green, and Blue: A Memoir by Mary E. Gregory
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

This is a very engrossing book. I sometimes struggle to stay interested in memoirs, but didn’t have that problem once with this one. I really resonated with Mary in her struggles as a child, despite my having a very different childhood than her. It was honest and poignant, and the writing made it easy for me to walk in Mary’s shoes as she remembers her life. I like how casually it was revealed that she has a facial deformity fairly far into the book, like it wasn’t something she focused on much, just a fact about her body. It didn’t define her any more than her dirty clothes. Ms. Gregory is able to embody her childhood self so well that it’s easy to forget that 8 year old Mary didn’t write it. It didn’t sound like an adult remembering; the voice and thought processes were clearly a child’s. I fell into this world and loved being invited into her world for awhile. Thanks so much, Ms. Gregory!

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