Untamed
by Glennon Doyle
Doyle's memoir of leaving a marriage, meeting her wife, and unlearning the rules she was taught about being good: in short, personal chapters, with the recurring image of a caged cheetah. It is candid, polarizing and beloved, and it is memoir, not method. Readers who feel caged find it electric.
Read it if…
you have followed every rule and feel caged by your own good behavior.
Skip it if…
you want advice; the book is testimony and asks you to find your own.
Three things you will actually use
- Feel it all; numbness costs more.
- Trust the inner knowing; it is quieter than the rules.
- Disappoint others before you disappoint yourself.
Do this first
Write what you would do this year if you stopped trying to be good and started trying to be true.
Our verdict
Raw and freeing; a memoir that works as a mirror.
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