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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 against another edition
5.0
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 against another edition
5.0
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.
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
4.0
Graphic: Animal death, Grief, Genocide, War, and Death
Moderate: Rape and Hate crime
booksngrannies's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Genocide, Islamophobia, Racism, Grief, Death, and War
Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Violence, Blood, and Rape
Minor: Torture
danajoy's review
5.0
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.
Graphic: Racism, Death, Islamophobia, Genocide, Grief, Violence, War, and Animal death
Moderate: Rape and Animal cruelty
Minor: Alcohol
bookwookie's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Genocide, Violence, War, and Child death
Moderate: Rape
nitya's review against another edition
5.0
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
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
5.0
Graphic: Child death, Death, Genocide, Gore, Grief, Islamophobia, Misogyny, Murder, Rape, Religious bigotry, Sexism, Sexual violence, and Violence
peeniewallie's review
4.0
Graphic: Violence
Moderate: Gun violence, Death, Child death, Rape, Islamophobia, Misogyny, and Genocide
Minor: Animal death and Medical content