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Book Review of A Child Called 'It': One Child's Courage to Survive

A Child Called 'It': One Child's Courage to Survive
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Never have I read a book, finished it, and had so many unanswered questions. I know in the back of the book the author states that many answers will be revealed in the following books, but I wonder if my questions will be answered. It's not that I think he's lying, but many statements in the book don't sit right with me. For a memoir, I don't see much emotion throughout the book. It's very flat language that reads like stereo instructions. The word usage also seems flat like he is talking about someone from another country. Mother, Father, Grandmother...who talks like that? I've read some of the controversy about this book and I'm not ready to dismiss what happened to this man as a falsehood like so many have done. I was not going to read the other books in the series, but with so many unanswered questions I think I will.