My Love Story

TINA Turner’s second memoir, following 1986’s I, Tina, is filled with the lessons that can only be delivered by someone who has been around the block a few times and lived to tell about it.

The first lesson is, run from snakes. Born Anna Mae Bullock in Nutbush, in 1939, the country girl who would become a rhythm and blues icon learned early that when a snake reared its head, it was time to skedaddle. “Something always told me when to run,” Tina says. Tina describes her dialysis and eventual kidney transplant in as much detail as she devotes to her wedding to Erwin Bach, whose quiet devotion makes him the anti-Ike of the tale. Oh, and this is the only book I have ever read in which the last page is an organ donor form. |