As suggested by the full title, the book's a memoir with each chapter being an essay related in some way to an overall train theme. I read her more fleshed-out memoir "Memory Maps" first, so this one seemed sketchy to me. Unfortunately, this one re-enforced my previous impression of how self-consciously precocious she's always been. I give it a relatively high rating because she's a good writer, but I've decided that I'm really not interested in her life story, and how she's presented it.

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