There is something intrusive about reading Erin Lee Carr's All That You Leave Behind, a memoir about her relationship with her father, the late New York Times reporter, David Carr, who died of complications from lung cancer in 2015. Carr, the documentary filmmaker behind Mommy Dead and Dearest, sorts through their complicated relationship, from early memories of entering the foster care system with her twin sister, Meagan, as David entered rehab, to her tumultuous inherited battle with addiction and sobriety. The book is devastatingly intimate as Carr shares her own vivid memories alongside e-mail and g-chat conversations with her father. It can, at times, get ugly. On more than one occasion Carr finds herself blackout drunk at work. But it is during the dark times that the star of this book, David, shines ever so earnestly. As Carr looks back on their relationship, while mourning the unexpected loss of her father, she graciously shares much of the advice he once bestowed upon her: "Remind yourself that nobody said this would be easy," "Do the next right thing,""Street hotdogs are not your friend." There is really no putting this book down—unless, perhaps, to pick up your phone and call someone you love as much as Carr so clearly loves her father. —Daniela Tijerina, Assistant to the Editor, Vanity Fair

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