although you can't beat her essays, I admit that. But one thing we need to acknowledge about her is that she's very ethnocentric and class-centric without realizing it, so she just isn't going to speak to every reader. That's especially evident in Where I Was From, I think, but a number of readers here really felt hit over the head with it in The Year of Magical Thinking, which to my mind is incredible, but to other people, not so much.