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The Sound of Gravel: A Memoir by Ruth Wariner

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challenging emotional sad fast-paced

5.0

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adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

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dark emotional informative sad medium-paced

4.0

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challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective tense medium-paced

4.25

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4.5

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4.5

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4.75

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emotional hopeful sad medium-paced

4.0

Harrowing, but not hard to get through (as the reader). Was really disappointed that
one of the brothers still partakes in the polygamist life after all of that.
To me, the author is too understanding of her mother. I get that she was a victim, too, but she royally fucked up.
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emotional sad slow-paced

5.0

This book left me in an absolute puddle of tears. Beautiful and heartbreaking. I’ve never felt so enraged reading a book, rage on behalf of everything that Ruth went through, rage at her mother’s actions, rage at her monster of a stepfather, and rage at the community and beliefs that allowed everything to occur the way it did. 

I can’t say that I understand the grace she must have to be able to forgive her mother, but I still sobbed at her feelings of loss in the end. I hope she is now living the life of her dreams.
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