I do, however, take issue when an author other than the Rain Man insists, as Gildiner repeatedly does, that she remembers VERBATIM what someone said in any given situation. They must be embellished and expanded in order to form a fully-developed narrative. Sure, it's probably based on actual memories (which are themselves imperfect, diluted by time and prone to subjectivity) but recollections alone do not a good book make. When reading a memoir, I automatically assume that most of what the author writes is actually fiction. On another level, what we have here is an over-the-top sales pitch on what an unusual and extraordinary life young Catherine led. On the surface, Catherine Gildiner has written a "memoir" of growing up near Niagara Falls and her experiences as an overly precocious, conspicuously intelligent only child with a talent for athletics, philosophy, reading, and just about everything else, apparently.
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