‘I never saw anyone on network TV who looked like me playing a role like this,’ writes Davis on her role as Annalise Keating in How to Get Away with Murder. And I concur. I had never seen a woman like that as a lead.

Davis and I live on continents miles apart and have had entirely different experiences growing up. But despite that I felt a sense of belongingness in her story. Her writing is raw and heartfelt; her story harrowing at times. To think how her life would have been entirely different had she been born in a financially stable household. But she spent her formative years in abject poverty, with a father who was abusive towards her mother, an absent brother, trauma, and sisters whom she wanted to protect with everything she had.

Viola is a hero in the story. Just to think what she went through to have a life she lives now makes me want to give her a long, bear hug. Her resilience turned out to be the reason behind her success.

Her wiring is elegant, poetic; her narration phenomenal. It makes you ache, it makes you shiver, it makes you want to enter the story and hold her, and eventually it makes you want to root for her. And you do.

From talking about complicated relationship with certain family members, lack of self-love, foraging for food in dumpsters, and how she made it to college and eventually to Julliard, Davis has poured her heart and soul into the book. She has hunger within her that will inspire you to make something of yourself.

There are memoirs that towards the end go southwards, and at some point you feel bored. But with Finding Me never did I ever feel like 'okay, this is less interesting now'. In fact, I wanted more.
Trust me when I say, I have read many a memoir. But Finding Me, hands down, is the best I've read so far.

If memoirs are your thing, this one is unmissable. You just cannot skip this one!