The thing is, some such books I *might* read because it reflects on someone else’s life. But I wouldn’t read it because it was a “Tragic Life Story” genre. In fact, it would have me running. I would be less embarrassed to stand at the Erotic Fiction shelves (if they had one). To give it that genre is to make it voyeuristic.

Anyway, if I was to read a true life story I need to have some light at the end of the tunnel, a rainbow at the very least. So the genre is about “surviving” rather than “tragic life”.