Choose Your Own Disaster

In case you were wondering how a sexually liberated, bulimic "upper-middle-class white lady" (as author Dana Schwartz calls herself in one of the footnotes) faces life during and after her Ivy League college experience, this memoir provides one answer, or several, depending upon your point of view. There is some good writing here, especially about bulimia, but unfortunately, the author chose a gimmicky "choose your own adventure" format, in which readers turn to one page or another depending on which direction they want the story to take. I went down three separate story "paths" and decided I was finished when I hit the third "the end". I skimmed the second half of the book, but I still haven't figured out how to get there. Not that I show more really care. show less

I got this book as an ARC, so I'm guessing in the final copy it actually has page numbers instead of "turn to page 000" since it seems that some of the chapters are supposed to follow each other. However, I read straight through and managed to still follow the narrative. I found the writing occasionally funny, but not particularly relatable -- is this Gen Z? Late Millenialism?