Review of Friendly Fire: A Fractured Memoir

Cover of Friendly Fire: A Fractured Memoir – gray background with yellow and black text. 

Disclosure: This review was written for the Diversability Leadership Collective after receiving a complimentary copy of Paul Rousseau’s Friendly Fire: A Fractured Memoir. 

The following review of Friendly Fire A Fractured Memoir by Paul Rousseau was provided by Nicole Demos (member of the Diversability Leadership Collective). 

 Gripping, raw, emotive, and real, the reader becomes intertwined between events of the past and the present after Paul’s accident. With a magnitude of lessons to be learned, secrets to be uncovered and feelings to be deeply felt, this memoir is truly a work of the heart.

Upon a closer observation of the hardcover, I realized the magnitude of the effect Paul Rousseau memoir had on me. The cover is a harsh steel grey in color emblazoned with the title FRIENDLY FIRE in bold golden yellow. Between the letters E and N lies a somewhat gaping hole and if you look beyond the words you will see a lighter grey skull, directly below at the bottom is the phrase,  A Fractured Memoir in harsh black font. How could I have not seen the almost hidden skull before this? Would I have so willingly read and absorbed each page with such diligence if I had? The resounding answer to both questions is an unequivocal, YES!!

Paul Rousseau’s memoir takes readers on a similar journey as the bullet that shattered not only his skull but a friendship that by all accounts was true. 

Diversability would like to thank DLC Member, Nicole Demos for thoughtful review of Friendly Fire. To read another DLC member’s review of Friendly Fire, visit our blog.