Books like Inner Propaganda

What makes a good fiction book? For me, it’s staying up way too late in bed because I have to know what happens in the next chapter. We Were Liars was that book.

A wealthy family, a private island, and one summer nobody will talk about. That’s all you get from me. Anything more is a spoiler, and in this book the spoiler matters.

Read it if: you want a story you’ll finish faster than you planned, and you’re fine being tired at work the next day.

My husband and I listened to Unbreakable(ish) over a couple of road trips, and I lost count of how many times we hit pause to talk about something Ali Ingersoll just said.

Ali was paralyzed from the chest down in her mid-20s, but her childhood on Cat Island could be its own movie. She was raised to be fiercely independent and to explore everything, which made me a little sad about how many kids today never get the chance to wander. Then there’s playing games with Michael Jackson as a kid. And the Playboy Mansion. You’ll think it’s fiction. I’ve talked with Ali, and her family vouched for all of it at her book launch.

We also learned how much the healthcare system asks of people with paralysis, and we kept coming back to how lucky she was to have the means to get what she needed, when… show more.