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Review: “A Jersey Girl’s Guide to the Universe” by Amy Farrar

10/13/2021

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Written by Lauryn Smith
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A version of this article was originally published in the All Booked Up section of the October 2021 edition of “Networking News,” the official newsletter of the Professional Editors Network.
 
There’s something special about a noncelebrity memoir.
 
With a celebrity memoir, you usually know at least a teensy bit about the person and their life experiences before you even crack open their book.
 
But with a noncelebrity memoir, you tend to go in with fewer assumptions and “spoilers.” With a noncelebrity memoir, you are given a valuable opportunity to learn something new about life.
 
I recently read one such memoir, namely Amy Farrar’s “A Jersey Girl’s Guide to the Universe.” This memoir is a testament to how alike all of us really are, just people doing our best to navigate our time and place in the world. It also shows how, in one way or another, we are not alone.


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