Review: Remember Whose Little Girl You Are by Ellen Nichols

Remember Whose Little Girl You Are shares the experiences of life from the daughter of a preacher in the South. The stories she shares from her life feature the moves she made from parsonage to parsonage and some of the relationships she had along the way. She takes the reader back into a glimpse of life in the 50s and 60s. Many of the moments touching upon experiences that were affected during that time, a unique experience considering all the cultural significance that were happening and on the cusp of.

There were several moments that leave you laughing out loud, many that hold your compassion and others that capture random moments of ordinary life in the South. Honestly, I didn’t feel like this was a memoir. That isn’t a negative. It felt like she just shared stories of her life and I didn’t take away what I could’ve. There was something missing that collectively would’ve bound this together better for me. I say that conflicted because she has a life that I thought was very interesting and with so much to offer especially from the time frame she grew up in and what she experienced, it would’ve pulled at me more.

Overall, despite what I felt, it didn’t take away from the context because I did enjoy reading the stories she shared from her life and appreciate her gentle touch with some of the sensitive experiences that happened during that time.

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