Bittersweet by Susan StrasbergMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
It was nice to read this immediately after Timebends: A Life; both have an image of an emotional and insecure Marilyn Monroe, with one from a child's eyes and another from an adult's The meat of this easy to read, often gritty and very forthcoming autobiography is an arc from getting out of her parent's nest to independently forge her own acting career and relationships with Warren Beatty, Cary Grant, and Richard Burton; then a drift into substance abuse with actor-husband Christopher Jones; with a final, third act of getting out of that abusive marriage and shepherding her daughter Jennifer Robin to health in body and mind after a series of surgeries for congenital defects.
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