Name: Leafling's review of After Perfect by Christina McDowell
Item: After Perfect
Rating: 2
Author: Leafling

Christina McDowell

After the arrest and subsequent imprisonment of her beloved father, who was one of the guilty players in the schemes of the "Wolf of Wall Street," the author details the harsh realities of a fall from grace as she and her family dealt with addiction, depression, homelessness and loss.

A Daughter’s Memoir

After Perfect

Leafling

I wasn't super interested in any of the picks offered to me in the August Book of the Month, so I decided to go for a memoir. After Perfect is about the daughter of a man who worked with Jordan Belfort (Wolf of Wallstreet guy). There was a lot of promise for downward spirals, family drama, discussion of privilege, and redemption. And it's not that these things weren't present, but that it felt like a shallow representation of each.

 "And that was it. He turned around and walked through the automatic sliding glass doors, carrying nothing but a plane ticket. I studied him as he entered the concourse, looked left, then right, and then left again. He was figuring out which way to go. It was the first time I had ever seen him look uncertain."


Obviously Christina has gone through a whole hell of a lot, and I don't want to critique her story as it's a reality for her. There are some really devastating moments. I definitely gasped when the extent of her father's deception and betrayal is revealed. I just wasn't blown away by the writing or how deep it went. And there was a whole lot of name dropping that made me roll my eyes instead of get deeper into the story.

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