Rough Draft- A Memoir by Katy Tur
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Web ID: 17689126“Rough Draft” a Polished Work
You may never read a more personal or private memoir than Rough Draft, at least not one written by someone who’s had as full and Breaking News! a life as Katy Tur before the age of 40, and considers this, her second book, to be her second memoir, after her first book in 2017, Unbelievable. Her writing is frank, clear, detailed and insightful, with good doses of charm and humor; her unique story is engaging, admirable and complete-to-date; the 20 brisk and amazing chapters top one another, the Epilogue is sobering and guardedly hopeful, and the Acknowledgements speak well to her determination and diligence to get her story right. She says she won’t write another memoir this decade. So give her eight years or so, but in the meantime get the book and see for yourself the treat it is, and also check her as a journalist to follow.
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Highly recommended
Very honest and heartfelt.
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I Could Not Put This Down
I have always admired Katy Tur as an on-air journalist, because, to me, she comes across as so human and honest. When I saw her promoting the book briefly on MSNBC, I could not wait to get my hands on a copy. I was not disappointed. This is an honest, heartfelt memoir about growing up up in a family with parents who were hard working, seat-of-your pants local journalists in LA in the ‘80s and ‘90s. Her parents had an often volatile and thus unpredictable relationship, so her life was often unsettled, even though it largely made her who she is today. She became a strong and committed journalist, wife and mother. She is also a very good writer. Having not read her first book “Unbelievable” about her accidental assignment to cover the Trump campaign in 2015 and 2016, I found myself wanting to read that book as soon as I finished this one. I am now reading that one as well and find it to be as honest as “Rough Draft” and very much a prequel.
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Open and Interesting Memoir
Kay Tur’s first book about following Trump’s campaign trail was a best seller. I will have to read it! Because her second memoir Rough Draft, about her family and starting her career in journalism, was a delight to read. I was surprised by how open and natural Tur comes across, whether talking about the rift between he and her father or life after a C-section. Tur’s parents were self-made journalists famous for filming a fleeing O. J. Simpson from their helicopter. They often brought Tur with them, so she grew up rather nonplussed about dangerous situations. She discovered that journalism was in her blood, and she thrived on the seat-of-your-pants life of a traveling international reporter who lived out of a suitcase…Until she met her husband and gave birth. She was committed to her career, but discovered that “motherhood had given me an extra length of emotional nerve endings. I reacted to details in a new more visceral way.” Tur’s father’s violent episodes destroyed his marriage and alienated Tur. After her father transitioned and became a woman she still had anger issues, unable to admit or apologize for her past behavior. I appreciate Tur’s integrity. When people pressured Tur about “doing more” to get Trump out of office, she replied, “That’s not my job, I’m not on your team. I’m on the side of the facts.” The news should “make you uncomfortable,” she writes, and insists that her role is to “gather for an otherwise sprawling country a common set of facts. What to do with those facts is the stuff of politics and debate.” This is an easy to read, interesting memoir. I received a free egalley from the publisher through NetGalley. My review is fair and unbiased.
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