Reviews tagging 'Rape'

The Cat I Never Named: A True Story of Love, War, and Survival by Amra Sabic-El-Rayess, Laura L. Sullivan

9 reviews

jennswan's review

challenging emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual harassment, Islamophobia, Genocide, Gore, Grief, Hate crime, Medical trauma, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, and War

Moderate: Gore, Racial slurs, Rape, and Animal cruelty

whisper88's review

emotional inspiring fast-paced

5.0

Okay, so yes the cat is lost at the end, but only in the epilogue. Otherwise she's unhurt in the book. I don't think this is a spoiler because it's a huge deciding factor whether someone could/couldn't read this book. (I literally can't read anything where animals are hurt or killed.)

You'll still end up ugly crying, but it's worth every snotty tear drenched tissue.

I keep asking everyone older than me (I was born in the '90's) what they remember of the time and how the news reported (if it ever did) a literal genocide. Happily this brave family avoided the most extreme losses and torture. It's truly a survival story which may be some of the most important messages we can share. Death can be a relief, or at least a definitive resolution, where as surviving leaves so many questions unanswered. Learning how to sit with life as it is (or was) is an undertaking where any support from any source is always badly needed.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cultural appropriation, Death, Genocide, Injury/Injury detail, Gun violence, Antisemitism, War, Gore, Rape, Sexual harassment, Xenophobia, and Grief

scmiller's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Grief, Genocide, War, and Death

Moderate: Rape and Hate crime

booksngrannies's review

emotional reflective tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Islamophobia, Racism, Grief, Death, and War

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Violence, Blood, and Rape

Minor: Torture

danajoy's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective tense medium-paced

5.0

This is one of the most important books I've ever read.

I can't say I knew much about the atrocities that occured in Bosnia just a few years before I was born. It was never taught in my schools (possibly just mentioned in passing while we studied the Holocaust). It is deeply upsetting that I didn't know much at all about this, especially when it all occurred recently. Amra was 16 in 1992, when the Yugoslav Wars came to her home city of Bihać. 

The brutal realities of war are blatant in this book. I wasn't expecting the risk of r*pe to be so blatantly addressed in the opening chapter in a "YA" book. War and l ethnic cleansing aren't shied away from. 

It's very well written. Its a good starting point for education about the war and genocide. I found myself researching places and events every time I put the book down. 

Read this book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Death, Islamophobia, Genocide, Grief, Violence, War, and Animal death

Moderate: Rape and Animal cruelty

Minor: Alcohol

bookwookie's review against another edition

dark emotional informative reflective tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Violence, War, and Child death

Moderate: Rape

nitya's review against another edition

dark emotional inspiring sad tense medium-paced

5.0

Read for MLIS elective

RTC when I stop sobbing

And I don't know why this is under the graphic novel shelf. For the record, this is a prose memoir! The only picture is of Amra and Maci (the cat), which also is a section/time divider. 

Content warning: Islamophobia, war, violence, death (it's a theme), genocide, rape (not to the narrator/author but it is mentioned), animal death, sexual harassment, humans being terrible and cruel*

*Probably my inner nihilist talking but I will include it

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual harassment, Animal death, Child death, Islamophobia, Death, Genocide, Violence, and War

Moderate: Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, and Rape

Minor: Confinement

biacedbooks's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

This book was absolutely incredible and heartbreaking. It shows the realities of what some people have had to go through and really made me realize my privilege. 

I found myself crying on the last page, still holding out hope that Maci would find her way home one last time

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Genocide, Gore, Grief, Islamophobia, Misogyny, Murder, Rape, Religious bigotry, Sexism, Sexual violence, and Violence

peeniewallie's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring sad tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence

Moderate: Gun violence, Death, Child death, Rape, Islamophobia, Misogyny, and Genocide

Minor: Animal death and Medical content