3.5 stars
Nicolaia grew up living in the Chelsea Hotel, an establishment full of interesting and artistic characters. A self professed outsider with lackadaisical parents, she is mixed in her attempts to make friends and succeed socially in elementary and middle school. This short memoir is full of quick, amusing chapters that while at times really funny, are also fairly unbelievable. I constantly found myself saying "that didn't happen." And maybe these events did take place, but the author does say in the ending note that the stories are often a combination of the remembered and the imagined. Personally, I wish that this note would have been at the beginning so I knew what I was reading. However, for such a young author this is very well written and her experiences living in the Chelsea Hotel are both interesting and entertaining. I received this book from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
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