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I live in Lexington, KY. Have lived in Kentucky for 35 years and have relatives in London. This book was ok but at the end, the author lets her deep Democratic political leanings and biases be known....and it is completely disingenuous for the author, who inspired the passing of Jeannette’s law to not acknowledge that it was a Republican governor who signed the bill into law. She conveniently left that little tidbit out. Furthermore when discussing race relations in KY--and painting KY as a racist state with little to no progress in that regard-- she neglected to mention that at the time of her writing, the Lieutenant Governor for KY, under the Republican governor was a black woman. Hello?!?! She obviously had an agenda and wanted to paint KY in a way that furthered her political biases. Looking at her Twitter account, I see that she's running for office in Louisville, so this book had to be written with not so much as a positive mention of anything her party despises, which is why she left those important details out. I didn’t appreciate all of the politics, and if I had read that first I doubt I would have finished the book. It left such a bad taste in my mouth because she clearly wasn't even trying to be objective. Talking about politics is one thing--but when you sell a book as being about the strength of the Hill Women of KY, and then get 'all political,' it's a turn off. Her story was a fine one but I also felt like it was one tangent after another. She would start a subject and then suddenly we’d jump back in time by one or two decades on a backstory. I wonder if there was a better way to unfold her story. Too much jumping around for me. I think she may be too young to have written her memoir (most people wait until they've lived at least until middle age?) and perhaps a few years of having it on the shelf would have brought some much needed maturity to her piece. She was constantly hand wringing over her actions, her perception of herself, and how others may or may not have perceived her. A lot of self-obsession. Perhaps a little time and distance would help to make this a little less sounding like ‘poor me I don’t know who I am.’ I realize this is a memoir so there’s a needle to thread without sounding like you aren’t overly focused on yourself but compared to other memoirs I have read I know it’s possible to do so. Mostly, I just thought her politics and the way she portrayed KY as a racist state were a real turn off.