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Meh. It was fine. Unbelievable story, obviously. And I wanted to scream at people throughout. While the narrator was great, I would have loved to have heard the author read it - but I'm sure there were reasons that she didn't.

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WOW!! Im still catching my breath from this INSANE memoir that had me gripped from the very beginning. Cheryl grew up in the most unusual and chaotic family. Parents and two siblings who were literally fugitives from the law. Cheryl didn‘t know from whom or why they were constantly changing identities and continents until much later in her life. With an over controlling narcissistic father & a passive mother Cheryl lived on the edge 👇🏽

In the same vein as The Glass Castle and Educated, though Nowhere Girl is less about physical abuse and more about manipulation, but each of these authors share incredible childhood experiences. In Nowhere Girl, Cheryl (a new name) takes readers through multiple countries & scenarios where she‘s expected to lie about her family and their background. Much is revealed about her origin story later in the book as well as why her family is on the run.

How many is too many books for a 10 day cabin trip?? 🤔 How many do you think I packed?? 🤣 Starting this one, which came highly recommended!

My pantry reno is completed ( I emptied and took down old crap shelves and filled the holes and painted, a lovely carpenter built these beauties) and now I get to fill it! Where to start 👏🏻👏🏻 I‘m going to need a new book to listen to! This book is awesome on audio and so captivating

Started today

It‘s an inevitable comparison, but having read “Educated,” “The Glass Castle,” and this book, I like this one the least. I find the limits of my credulity stretched to the breaking point after reading about so many unbelievable stories. The pacing was also really off. We get extensive details from each year when she was a young child and then whole years are skipped when she is a young adult. TW for abuse and sexual assault.

Wow. This is a memoir that reads like suspense. Recommended by a friend - thank you! it is intense, the story of the life of a woman who grows up as a fugitive.
Warnings for child & spousal abuse.

A memoir of a young girl whose parents are fugitives and travel across 5 continents to escape capture. Finished it in one day but towards the end it got a little hokey. Great read for young adults or those looking for different cultural experiences.

This memoir was so completely off the chains, that it defies credibility a bit. But, putting that aside, the story was unputdownable. The #audiobook was a good narration.

I‘m not sure how much of this memoir actually happened and there are some super triggering scenes involving abuse and gaslighting. But I couldn‘t take my mind off this book and it held my attention throughout.

This book is about a family who is on the run from the mothers father who threatened to take the children away. So as they hop from country to country and city to city it is up to the children to make sure they have their story straight of who they are. I found this fascinating and intriguing through out the whole book.

Book was decent for a memoir. I just find it hard to believe. Reading almost like it was James Frey writing it. It was hard to believe everything actually happened.

Listening to this audio book. Very interesting and crazy to believe this is someone‘s real life. Wow

I heard Cheryl/Harbhajan speak in a webinar earlier this year around the time I read Tess Sharpe's The Girls I've Been, which fascinated me. Unlike that fictional YA title, this memoir kept me on the edge of my seat. So many parallels to other narcissistic and cult books I've read over the years. From a readers perspective you can feel all that is wrong with the family dynamics and living in fear, while also suffering from Stockholm syndrome ↩️

I was completely captivated by this memoir of a woman who spent her entire childhood on the run. It read like a fast-paced suspense novel for me - I was glued to each page. A super satisfying memoir! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ #arc

Full review at: https://erinkonrad.com/2021/06/20/nowhere-girl-book-review/

I wanted this book about living on the lam with a con man father and codependent mother to be exciting, but I just never really got that invested in it. It was more a series of things that happened to her rather than the true reflection a great (or even good) memoir requires. So-so bordering on pan. #audiobook

Happy Publication Day!!! This memoir reads like fiction- it‘s fast-paced and impossible to put down! The author relays her childhood on the run, across continents and decades. Secrets, violence and outright lies unfold as she starts to chase after the truth while trying to hold her fragmented family together. Heartbreaking and riveting, it does leave a few things up in the air- but it‘s a hard one to put down!! Thank you to @AlgonquinBooks

4.5🌟What a wild ride this book is! Imagine being born into a family of outlaws fleeing international law, being constantly on the run, changing identities and moving from different continents and countries, never being able to stay anywhere long enough to make friends, living a giant lie. Sounds insane right?! I was utterly facinated by this coming of age story that I flew right through this book. #pubday #bookreview #bookblogger #bookblog

It‘s a big #NewReleaseTuesday on #Libby for me!!