Book Review - Find Me by Rosie O'Donnell
by Rosie O'Donnell
What is it that triggers our memories and brings to the surface those previously submerged clues and pointers to who we are? For Rosie O'Donnell, as she tells us in "Find Me", it was a phone call she made to a young woman named Stacie in response to a request that had come into the adoption agency with which she is associated. She writes, "That was the first call, the single call, that would change my life, and hers too, probably forever."
Within the framework of her conversations with Stacie - that assume the dimensions of an obsession - O'Donnell takes us on a journey through her past and into her present that explains a lot about who Rosie is, and why and how she does what she does.
If you've ever heard Rosie speak, you'll hear her clearly in this book that captures her forthright, no-punches-pulled staccato delivery. The book is easy to read in terms of language, but the stream-of-consciousness path along the Stacie-Rosie connection may not be easy to follow.
This isn't a celebrity-tells-all book. It's not a book for Rosie fans looking for scandal, fun little tidbits of personal eccentricities, and easy gossip. It isn't even a book about adoption, although Rosie is an adoptive parent and the connection with Stacie was made through the agency. It isn't about whether or not the reader agrees with Rosie's actions and reactions. It's a book about two women's lives intersecting at full tilt over the period of one year, and how it affects the author, Rosie O'Donnell.
I don't care for the use of the word "birthmother" for an expectant woman, and I don't share Rosie's view of adoption as God's mistake in choosing a family, but I enjoyed the twists and turns as the story jumped from Stacie to Rosie to Rosie's past and present, and back again, and the insight they offer into this very visible personality.
She's imperfect, she's not the perennial jokester, and she's riding the emotional and psychological rollercoaster of life.
Read an excerpt.
© Nancy S Ashe
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