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Homesick: A Memoir Reviews:
Good read! 
2009-11-16 - I am from Meridian, MS, so I was very interested in reading this memoir. It was interesting to me because I know many of the places Sela talks about. Wonderful.
Boring Read 
2006-08-17 - At least the book was accurately titled. It was definitely more memoir than autobiography. I always hate to give bad reviews to books that a person seems to have put so much effort into, but this was just boring. I am a big fan of biographies and this one falls short. Being a proper southern lady, Sela does not go into detail about what seems to have been an interesting life. Instead she spends lots of time talking about her thoughts and feelings. It all seemed forced.
She speaks in detail about how great life is in Mississippi, yet she raises her kids in LA, of all places. She seems to be a good mother, but yet her children have spent hours in the care of nannies as she goes to work in the wee hours of the morning and returns long after they are put to bed.
Quite the confusing and contrary mishmash, but I understand her need for putting something down on paper. Losing a mother does that to a person. Perhaps she should have just kept it for herself, family and friends. They would not have found it boring I'm sure.
great book
2004-05-10 - homesick is an awsome book. her life is interesting to read about!!!buy it!!!!its the best
Sela Ward Finds Her Way Back Home 
2004-01-08 - Go down south with Mississippi born actress Sela Ward. Homesick is a refreshing look at the everyday life of a young girl as she moves from small town life to young adulthood in New York and then settles in Hollywood.
Sela shares the story of her family stating, "The Wards have always walked a fine line between conviction and orneriness..." She admires her father and her mother. She talks much of the way she grew up as a southern girl, the south's traditions and the legacies, girl talk sessions, cliques, church, the family restaurant, charm school and even hanging at the local Quik Stop. It's rather refreshing that the book focuses on the positives of life.
Sela speaks of her own life, though not with Hollywood spectacles on. She shares her climb to success but does not allow it to take over the entire telling of her story. Her claim to fame is only part of her. Her family, her history, her place of birth are so much more.
Homesick also touches on issues such as racism in the South, the tragedy of September 11, overindulged children and drugs. The book also details Sela's mother's death and the hardship on the family.
The book is generously sprinkled with photographs which tell a story themselves. You'll see the young Sela, the model, the actress, but mostly you'll see the real Sela Ward, the one who stood at her mother's knee and listened to the stories of her family.
A Lady With Inbred Southern Charm
2003-08-20 - The memoir of a beautiful woman who went to NY City and then
Hollywood but longed to go home again.
A person can never really go home again, as another Southerner,
Thomas Wolfe wrote, but Sela Ward tried very hard to duplicate
her upbringing,when she married and had two chidren.
This is a book of a woman who developed in Meridian,Miss-
issippi;during the 1960's and 1970's.Her family isn't perfect
but they are good people.
A younger Sela neede more in her life to express her ambitions so she moved away.What she also found was she also needed
stability and family.
Unable to have a realistic family life in Hollywood-she
and her husband Howard Sherman set about building a new family home back in Meridan, Mississippi.Here they are surrounded by Sela's close relatives and their children are
able to lead a more rustic life.As often as possible they
reside in comfort and live here.
This is unlike any Hollywood story.People respect each
other and help one another.
It is refreshing to read about a Hollywood star, who is just like other ordinary folks.Her lovely Southern charm comes
through in the telling of her Family's customs.
