Confessions: A Memoir

This self-congratulatory, meandering memoir will leave readers wondering about the author%E2%80%99s reasons for writing it. Rhodes first chronicles her troubled childhood and dysfunctional family, and then moves on to document her jobs in advertising%E2%80%94while working in the field, she was successful and seduced a host of men. Rhodes concludes her story with how she turned herself into a literary agent%E2%80%94despite lacking any relevant experience. While the author may think readers will admire her chutzpah, they are instead left scratching their heads. The memoir ends abruptly; there is little reflection, and almost no self-awareness. Instead, readers are presented with a litany of lovers and anger over parental and romantic disappointments, and left with no real understanding of the author or her life.