PERFORMING ARTS

The Woman in Me

Gallery. Oct. 2023. 277p. ISBN 9781668009048. $32.99. MEMOIR
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Written with a voice that sounds distinctly hers, Spears’s highly anticipated memoir delivers on providing the types of details fans have been wondering about for years. She delves into her creative processes and how albums and music videos came to fruition, as well as motherhood, faith, heartbreak, and the media’s gleeful reaction to her public downward spiral in 2007. About half of the memoir is dedicated to her infamous 13-year conservatorship—how she was a prisoner in her own home, forcibly hospitalized and medicated, and made to work past most people’s breaking point. She comes across as a deeply sympathetic character, ensnared by a toxic family filled with generational trauma, and victimized by the ruthless early aughts media in a way that seems unfathomable in the current landscape. Broken down into extremely short chapters with lots of paragraph breaks, the book is both a quick and easy read, even when the subject matter is often heavy.
VERDICT Silenced for years, Spears uses this memoir to tell the world the truth about her life and to celebrate her newfound freedom. It is a must-purchase for all collections.
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