One Way Back
Christine Blasey Ford
St. Martin's Press. 320 pp.
Okay, so I'll admit to being hesitant about picking this book up. I mean, what could I learn that I hadn't already learned leading up to, during, and following the Bret Kavanaugh hearings in Congress?
Well, first, I learned about the price Ford and Ford's family paid for her testimony at those hearings. I don't think a lot of us know or even think much about the consequences of becoming such a public figure. Probably not a big deal for someone who glories in being the center of attention. But what about someone who doesn't? Someone, for instance, who values his or her privacy?
I don't know. I think the Kavanaugh hearings left a lot of unanswered questions on the table. And, indeed, I think there will always be a bit of a question mark hanging over both Bret Kavanaugh's decisions on the U. S. Supreme Court and over Christine Blasey Ford's testimony before Congress. Ford's memoir won't erase that.
Still, it's worth reading her side of the story, if you will. And it's a reasonably well-told story, despite Ford's odd allusions to her beloved sport of surfboarding. Sheesh!