Rachel DeLoache Williams
Auteur van My Friend Anna: The True Story of a Fake Heiress
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Rachel DeLoache Williams was born and raised in Knoxville, Tennessee, and is a graduate of Kenyon College. In 2010, she moved to New York City and landed her dream job in the photo department of Vanity Fair, where she worked with the magazine's leading photographers and iconic subjects. My Friend toon meer Anna is her first book. toon minder
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I'm bemused by the fact that I felt Rachel (the author) was portrayed more sympathetically in the Netflix documentary than she was in her own memoir. After watching, Inventing Anna, I truly felt sorry for Rachel. She was scammed by a friend into picking up an enormous hotel bill, and I could totally see how that could happen. The film made me believe that there truly was a friendship between Anna and Rachel, and that Rachel didn't just care about living NY life in the fast lane with someone who provided entry into that world. Rachel seemed more innocent.
In the memoir, Rachel indicates that she felt sorry for Anna because she seemed lonely, and that most of the relationship was based on her extreme empathy for Anna. So the friendship seems more contrived, more unequal, and less likely. Which unfortunately does give the reader a feeling of "what exactly did you like about this woman beyond her money?".
Regardless of how I felt about the author, she is a victim of a very persuasive scammer, and I definitely felt sorry for the four months she spent trying to get paid back and the stress she must have been under with these giant credit card bills and no great way to extricate herself from the debt. Of course in hindsight, most readers are going to feel she made some huge mistakes and ignored some giant red flags, but don't sociopaths always do a great job using charm and persuasion to get their victims to acquiesce to their desires.
A fascinating story, but personally, I'd watch it on Netflix and skip the book.… (meer)