Scottie the Daughter of: The Life of Frances Scott Fitzgerald Lanahan Smith by Eleanor LanahanMy rating: 2 of 5 stars
Living a life with an arc covering a childhood from the world-travelling largess of her parents in the 30s to burgeoning women's liberation movement to Democratic Party efforts leading up to the Reagan Era, Scottie Fitzgerald had a rich life worth documenting. I am not sure her daughter's scrapbook approach presents it completely enough. Largely told through excerpts of Scotties own start on an autobiography, correspondence, and other pieces this is a mix of voicings and feels to me at times more like the raw material for a biography rather than a biography itself. The author brings in around the life of her mother the arcs of many other family members, including her troubled siblings Jacky and Tim.
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