Memorial Drive: a Daughter’s Memoir (2020, nonfiction, 199 pages), by Natahsa Trethewey. I recall hearing about Trethewey on NPR “When Natasha Trethewey was 19, her world shattered after her former stepfather killed her mother.” I thought it would make a compelling page turner. I was disappointed. I stopped on page 88 as she wrote “it could go on and on and on, or someone must write the end of it”. I agreed with the author and made that my end. The author jumped around too much from one memory to another. There are countless examples of this: when her mother and biological father separated, and her mother moved and met her abusive husband. There was never any explanation about how the author’s mother met him and how she could’ve allowed such an abusive man into her life after having a previously good husband.  No apparent reason why her mother left family members, who could care for her daughter, and then moved to Atlanta. It was all just vague and confusing leaving me with too many questions, and not enough detailed answers. This book does deal with Domestic Violence, and I encourage anyone who finds themselves in such a situation to outreach to the National Domestic Violence Hotline.800.799.SAFE (7233)