Maia’s Reviews > Five Days Gone: The Mystery of My Mother's Disappearance as a Child > Status Update

I’m really struggling to finish this book and it’s only due to my lifelong compulsion to nearly always END what I’m reading, that I’m even dealing with this struggle at all. Because honestly: I’m not really sure what the point of it is, at all.

I reserved it at the library immediately when I read about it in the NYT and on NPR. It sounded fascinating and compelling. And yet it’s not!