But what reads like a perfect college résumé (she enrolled in Cornell) belies Keri’s anguish. Her Harvard-educated lawyer father drove her to skating practice, and her Cornell-educated grade-school-teacher mother gave her standardized tests “for fun” and made sure Keri tried “all the possible childhood activities,” including piano, soccer, horseback riding, gymnastics, Girl Scouts - “a smorgasbord of suburbia.”īlakinger was an A student, won writing awards and became a competitive figure skater. From the outside, Blakinger had a charmed childhood. Many families and many people have parallel narratives: one for public consumption, another the truth. Ultimately, there’s nothing comical about her descent. It’s funny at times - and I felt bad laughing about someone sinking as low as Blakinger did, but she’s sardonically witty, so I couldn’t help myself. Keri Blakinger’s brave, brutal memoir, “Corrections in Ink,” is a riveting story about suffering, recovery and redemption. From a New York Times review by David Sheff of the book by Keri Blakinger titled “Corrections in Ink”:
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