Reviews tagging 'Kidnapping'

Still Life with Bones by Alexa Hagerty

18 reviews

errie's review against another edition

challenging informative

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Confinement, Death, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Racism, Torture, Violence, Police brutality, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Grief, Mass/school shootings, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, War, and Injury/Injury detail

betsythegremlin's review against another edition

challenging dark informative sad medium-paced

5.0

Heartbreaking read but very important. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Torture, Violence, Xenophobia, Police brutality, Kidnapping, Grief, Mass/school shootings, Murder, and War

hgustlin's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, Police brutality, Kidnapping, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

bookbrig's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

I learned so much from this book, and it made me want to go back to reread The Bone Woman by Clea Koff. I only knew the very vaguest details about the history this book recounts, so I'm also hoping to read some of the books mentioned in the text for more context and info. This is a moving mixture of memoir and history and testimony and witness to atrocities that feels particularly timely, though I suppose it is unfortunately timely at any given moment. It's not a light read, but it is a really well written one.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Genocide, Grief, Mass/school shootings, Medical trauma, Death of parent, and Murder

Moderate: Confinement, Panic attacks/disorders, Torture, Violence, Police brutality, Kidnapping, and Gaslighting

mslaureeslibrary's review against another edition

dark informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Genocide, Gun violence, Hate crime, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Racism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Forced institutionalization, Police brutality, Antisemitism, Kidnapping, Grief, Religious bigotry, Murder, Pregnancy, War, and Classism

siria's review against another edition

challenging dark informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.25

A powerful and difficult look at the work involved in, and the meaning underpinning, the recovery of the remains of the Disappeared. Alexa Hegarty here recounts her work as a forensic anthropologist in Guatemala and Argentina, two countries marked by horrific dictatorial violence in the twentieth century. Individuals and sometimes whole communities were tortured and massacred, their remains dumped in mass graves or tossed down wells or dumped out at sea. When it's even possible to recover these remains—the sea tends to keep its secrets; some wells plumb too deep to be excavated safely—restoring their names to them is another very difficult task. Still Life with Bones is an absorbing and elegiac account of the terror that the state can inflict, and the choices that people make in the face of it; Hagerty's commitment to a grassroots, community-focused recovery process is admirable. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Genocide, Torture, Violence, Police brutality, Kidnapping, Grief, and Murder

moonytoast's review against another edition

challenging emotional medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Genocide, Gun violence, Violence, Police brutality, Kidnapping, Grief, Murder, and War

Moderate: Child death, Sexual violence, and Torture

laurenkimoto's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Police brutality, Kidnapping, Grief, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism