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Good so far, but some details a better editor should have caught have bumped me out of the story a few times.

I was very excited to find this at the Anchorage library, but my first attempt (the Chin Corn Soup) decidedly underwhelmed. Admittedly, I forgot to add the ginger to the pounded sauce until after the first bowl I ate, but next time I'd at least add some onions to the soup, or even use a mix of broth and water for cooking. The pounded sauce had real potential, but I might also make a larger batch next time.

Enjoying this book much more than I expected to. I thought a celebrity story might be less well written or less honest, but Green and his co-writer do a very nice job with some of the narrative passages, bringing out details of sound and taste. They also draw nuanced characterizations of his parents, without pulling punches about the systemic racism underlying the sharecropping poverty of Green's youth.