2021/05/19 Leviton tells us— honestly— of his “Honest Days,” his first three decades or so of life in which he didn’t filter the truth. Leviton’s self-deprecation is balanced well by a sense of acceptance about motivation of his past actions— he may have done some shitty things and doesn’t make any excuses for it, but he conveys well that he was making the choices he felt were best given the principles by which he was raised. The sense of reflection he infuses into his stories also gives the book a narrative arc that is often missing from memoirs, building suspense as to when and how his shift from complete honesty will come about. This memoir read (listened?) like an anthropological study of human interaction from the point of view of some human alien, if that makes any sense, and it worked for me.