Review: The Impostor’s Daughter
When Laurie Sandell was a young girl, she idolized her father. As she grew older, she began to realize that he’s different from other fathers and she suspected that a lot of what he was saying wasn’t true. After college, Laurie discovered that her father had obtained credit under her name and done some other questionable things.
In trying to find herself, Laurie does some questionable things of her own after that – traveling the world looking for love and participating in some outrageous behavior. She finally returned to the states and started working as a secretary. When she told a friend who works in the magazine business, about her father, he suggested she write about him. At about this time, she was having trouble sleeping and her mother suggested she try Ambien.
Laurie wrote an article on her father and it was published anonymously. Even so, it still didn’t sit well with her family. When Laurie got a magazine job interviewing celebrities, she started researching her father’s past in earnest, even traveling to South America to visit his step-sister. In the meantime, she’s became addicted to Ambien. She was in a relationship, but it wasn’t really a happy one, yet she couldn’t ever break it off.
After interviewing Ashley Judd, Laurie exchanged a few emails with her and opens up to her and Ashley Judd makes a suggestion that changes Laurie’s life forever.
The Impostor’s Daughter is Laurie Sandell‘s graphic memoir. What a story she has to tell! When this book first came, I leafed through a couple pages and I was hooked. The story is fantastic and the drawings are too. (You can get an idea of what they’re like from the cover.) There are even some of Laurie’s childhood drawings included. Laurie is brutally honest in the tale of her relationship with her father and the problems she created in her own life. I loved everything about this book – the story, the drawings and even the nice, thick paper it’s printed on. This book is hand lettered and took Laurie seven years to write. Once you pick The Impostor’s Daughter up, you won’t be able to put it down!
Review copy provided by Hachette Books.
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It does sound like a good book. I wonder if this should be my first venture in to the world of graphic novels.
I’m adding this to my TBR list. It sounds so good. Great review!
The story sounds fascinating, I can’t believe that it is a graphic novel! I haven’t read one of those yet, but I will keep it in the back of my mind.
Great review! I really wasn’t all that interested in the book, I’m sorry I passed it up now!
You make this book sound so good! I can’t wait to read it!
I like well done memoirs. This one sounds like it fits the bill.
I just got this book in the mail. I was going to start it but then I ended up going to my library and seen that they got The Time Traveler’s Wife in and I just HAD to read it. I am half way through already and can not put it down, and when I do I am still thinking about it.
But great review for this book, I can’t wait to start it. I was really surprised when I opened the book up and seen that it was in comic book form. 🙂
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Interesting. I read Stitches, my first graphic memoir and I’d definitely read another. This one looks good.
I had decide to swear off memoirs, but you might be changing my mind….
I passed this one up because I wasn’t sure I’d like it — but now I think I might.
Wow this sounds like a great book.
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I enjoyed it too. I was surprised at how much I enjoyed it as a graphic novel.
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I enjoyed this book also! Great review.
~ Popin
I so want to read this! It sounds just like my kind of book.
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book, the review sounds very interesting.
This sounds great, and I’m dying to know what Ashley Judd suggested.. I once read an interview about Ashley and she sounded very spiritual (I think she was talking about her past lives or something?) Anyway, I’ll keep an eye out for this book.
How do you do that? I thought this was one book I should pass by but now you’ve made me want to read it!
This sounds like a great book! I love the idea of a memoir in graphic novel format.
I love memoirs but I have never read a graphic memoir before, in fact I have never ever read a graphic novel. But this sounds really cool.
I so want to read this book! Thanks for your great review!
A graphic memoir- sounds interesting. Thanks for the review.
I don’t like graphic novels at all and I rarely read memoirs but you make this sound interesting. Bless Ashley Judd for taking an interest in this young woman.
This just sounds very intersting. I’m adding it to my list — and I’m not a graphic novel type of gal!
Awesome review! This looks like a book I’d really enjoy reading, thanks for sharing 🙂
I’m thinking I need to get my hands on this one. I’ve only seen positive reviews. Glad to see you enjoyed it, too. I’m intrigued by the memoir/graphic novel combination.
–Anna
I saw the author of this book interviewed on Good Morning America a few days ago. It definitely sounds interesting!