Margaret Robison Memoir

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I just finished reading Margaret Robison's memoir, The Long Journey Home after having read both of her sons memoirs Look me in the Eye and Running with Scissors respectively. Has anyone else on this forum read all three? If so, what were your thoughts?

I personally found there to be an odd similarity in the prose and was frustrated that in Margaret's memoir the names had not be changed to the convention used by her sons. (I had to create a cross reference chart) But was most troubled by the discrepancies between the description of the same event. It is frustrating as an outside observer (reader) to not know what is revisionist history, what is artistic license and what is pure fiction.

I don't really recall any major differences in recollection between my mother and I. Could you cite an example that troubled you?

There certainly were places where our memories differed in detail, which is to be expected when recalling events 40 years past.