The magic of Kathy Curto’s memoir, Not for Nothing, set in Ocean County, is the way her narrative voice starts as that of a little girl, dancing on the countertop to amuse her dad’s customers at their family-run gas station and body shop, and matures over the course of 150 pages to that of a young woman, discovering her desires and seeking answers to her father’s oft-posed question “Who do you think you are?”
The reader is along for the journey of growing up with her.
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