Book #13 |
Book: Between Two Trailers | Author: J. Dana Trent | |
| Source: Library loan Format: Kindle |
Pages: 256 | Duration: 02/28/26 – 02/28/26 (1 day) | |
| Rating: ★☆☆☆☆ | Genres: nonfiction, memoir, religion, mental illness | ||
| 📕10-word summary: Preschooler drug dealer quits, becomes a professor, then a minister. 🖌6-word review: Not my cup of tea. Abandoned. |
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| Description:* Growing up, Dana tries to be the daughter each of her parents wanted: a drug lord’s heir and a debutante minister. Dana imagines that her hidden Indiana life is finally behind her after she graduates from Duke University and becomes a professor and an ambivalent female Southern Baptist minister. But Dana was a child of the drug trade. Though she escapes flyover country, she realizes that she will never be able to escape her father’s legacy, and that her childhood secrets have kept her from making peace with the people and places that shaped her. Ultimately, Dana finds that no one can really “make it” until they return to where their story began.*From goodreads.com’s synopsis. | |||
| Thoughts: I really wanted to like this book, and I read 30% of it before abandoning it. The author is speaking [about this book] nearby in a couple of weeks, and I intended to attend her talk, which is why I decided to read it. I’m going to forgo that, too. I found no redeeming qualities in the characters and escapades related in the first third of the book, and as good as it might “turn,” I just wasn’t willing to slog through more. | |||
See the rest of the books I’ve read in 2026 and previous years: 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019.
