Andie Dominick
Autor von Needles
Werke von Andie Dominick
Getagged
Wissenswertes
- Geburtstag
- 1971
- Geschlecht
- female
- Nationalität
- USA
- Preise und Auszeichnungen
- Pulitzer Prize (Editorial Writing, 2018)
Pulitzer Prize finalist (Editorial Writing, 2014)
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Auszeichnungen
Statistikseite
- Werke
- 2
- Mitglieder
- 61
- Beliebtheit
- #274,234
- Bewertung
- 3.3
- Rezensionen
- 3
- ISBNs
- 5
- Sprachen
- 1
Andie Dominick was diagnosed at nine. She had an older sister with it. This is quite possibly the only memoir I've ever read, and definitely the only one I've read about a disabled person.
Oh wait.
It's about her sister, literally from the second sentence of the book until the last. The title is misleading. If it were "Needles: A Memoir About My Sister and the Disease We Shared", I wouldn't complain. I didn't knock stars off for that, though. I knocked off stars because this was written from the point of view of one of the whiniest, arrogant, sanctimonious narrators I've had the displeasure of reading. The back of the book, the edition I read, made being disabled at a young age seem so tragic. IT'S NOT. Throughout the book, she and her sister seem to hate diabetes, and themselves for having it. They repeatedly state they would kill themselves rather than be blind, and Dominick cannot stop whining when it actually does set in, -knowing- it would happen eventually. Her words, not mine. Dominick points out a wheelchair user in the book for a sentence, but it's in a negative light. She makes another student's epilepsy all about herself. I was stunned and wondered why I'd liked this book so much as a kid.
The way this was written was odd--entire chunks of her life were cut out or glanced over, that I would have found very interesting. She wrote about -her sister's- experiences with those events, though, which I thought was frankly creepy. Goes beyond idolizing her and right into a weird zone.
I don't deny that events in her life were tragic. She finds her sister dead from a cocaine overdose, and talks about it and her grief for the whole second half of the book, which is part of why I think the title should be changed. I can't imagine that kind of horror, though. She whined everywhere else and was self-centered and self-absorbed. She spent a good twenty pages describing her wedding, and -eyeroll.- She wasn't selfish, though, even when she whined she was. This book made me determined to find a -good- memoir of growing up with juvenile diabetes, and more memoirs about disability in general.… (mehr)