Rating: 5/5

Spice: 0

Primary Genre: Memoir

Trigger Warnings: Abortion, death of a spouse, death of a parent, grief, misogyny, cancer, addiction, child abuse, infidelity, domestic abuse, terminal illness, alcoholism, sexual assault

Favorite Quote: I admit it, given a choice, with a handful of exceptions, I tend to prefer the company of animals to the company people. Animals are honest-there’s not a hint of pretense about them, they just unapologetically are who they are, and their capacity to love and be loved outshines ours by about a million.

Plot 5/5: Kelly chronologically hops along through the major events in her life. She covers the high points as well as the lows. She leads us on a journey from starving artist Carole Bishop to a closing in on 80 years old Kelly Bishop.