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Book Pleasures Karen Atwood Reviews IT STOPS WITH ME: MEMOIR OF A CANUCK GIRL.
There are a number of motivations to write a memoir: proximity to fame, a story that speaks to or is representative of an entire generation, or a life that simply has a fascinating angle. In many ways, Charleen Touchette’s book, It Stops With Me: Memoir Of A Canuck Girl falls into both of the last two catagories.
Like many “baby boomers,” she was born into a picture perfect world, which in her case included a large extended Catholic French-Canadian family, two extremely handsome parents, and a lovely suburban home. Touchette was a wide-eyed, perfectly coiffed, privately educated little girl, who later attended Wellesley College and art school. After meeting her soul mate in college, they lived together, enjoying a Bohemian lifestyle in New York City, befriending inner city people as well as artists before settling down (in a manner of speaking), marrying and having four beautiful children together.
Did she live happily ever after? Well, yes and no.
There are a number of motivations to write a memoir: proximity to fame, a story that speaks to or is representative of an entire generation, or a life that simply has a fascinating angle. In many ways, Charleen Touchette’s book, It Stops With Me: Memoir Of A Canuck Girl falls into both of the last two catagories.
Like many “baby boomers,” she was born into a picture perfect world, which in her case included a large extended Catholic French-Canadian family, two extremely handsome parents, and a lovely suburban home. Touchette was a wide-eyed, perfectly coiffed, privately educated little girl, who later attended Wellesley College and art school. After meeting her soul mate in college, they lived together, enjoying a Bohemian lifestyle in New York City, befriending inner city people as well as artists before settling down (in a manner of speaking), marrying and having four beautiful children together.
Did she live happily ever after? Well, yes and no.
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