![]() ![]() Your Voice In My Head is largely devoted to exploring Forrest’s relationship and breakup with GH, and can be heavy handed at certain points. Once I was back in New York and safely in the company of my Internet connection, I was surprised to find that the tender, eccentric GH that Forrest spends much of the book pining for was actually bad boy actor Colin Farrell. Couple this with the fact that I read Your Voice In My Head while on a plane, and I was lucky to have the rare experience of reading a book with a secret, but not being able to snap my fingers and immediately have Google solve the mystery for me. Forrest’s take on mental illness, loss and general malaise has a distinct and mostly pleasant taste embittered only by her obsessive fixation on her movie star ex-boyfriend, forever referred to as “GH.”įorrest’s GH (short for Gypsy Husband) remains anonymous throughout the memoir, and since I came into this not having read any of her prior work, I knew very little about her personal life. Beginning with The Bell Jar, I find books of this kind to feel as if they come from the same family-the way you know a peach, a plum and a nectarine are related somehow, but relish their differing flavors all the same. After my brief obsession with Elizabeth Wurtzel’s Prozac Nation as a teen, I just can’t take any more chances. ![]() I read Emma Forrest’s memoir, Your Voice In My Head, with the slight mistrust I award any Broken Young Woman memoir. ![]()
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