The half i keep is a deeply moving, vibrantly rendered memoir in which the author expertly walks the tightrope between revisiting experience recollected in tranquility and dropping the reader head first into searing and indelible scenes.

left to raise herself while her charistmatic me-generation parents “find themselves”—Jess bravely wrestles with a past haunted by secrets, looks for love in all the wrong places, and finally comes full circle to find home.