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twinsinparadise's review against another edition
4.5
Moderate: Infidelity, Toxic relationship, Homophobia, Death of parent, and Grief
Minor: Alcohol and Child abuse
m0_x13's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Mental illness, Death, Grief, Infidelity, Pedophilia, Death of parent, and Child abuse
Moderate: Self harm, Suicide, and Homophobia
mollmccaff's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Death and Death of parent
Moderate: Pedophilia, Medical content, Adult/minor relationship, Sexual content, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Outing, Homophobia, and Grief
Minor: Alcohol and Mental illness
saucy_bookdragon's review against another edition
Graphic: Medical content, Emotional abuse, Car accident, Child abuse, Death of parent, and Death
Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Homophobia, and Lesbophobia
casdelvo's review against another edition
3.5
Graphic: Mental illness, Child abuse, and Adult/minor relationship
Moderate: Excrement, Lesbophobia, Homophobia, and Sexual content
Minor: Drug use, Domestic abuse, Death of parent, and Suicide
readandfindout's review against another edition
3.0
Themes: 4 stars
Perspective: 2.5 stars (I have really complicated feelings because of how the adult-minor relationships were never really addressed in the narrative?)
Art: 3 stars
Graphic: Toxic friendship, Death, Car accident, Emotional abuse, and Death of parent
Moderate: Suicide, Homophobia, Pedophilia, Domestic abuse, Adult/minor relationship, Mental illness, Grief, Infidelity, Child abuse, and Lesbophobia
ha1yan's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Child abuse, Suicide, Homophobia, Lesbophobia, Car accident, and Death of parent
Moderate: Pedophilia and Mental illness
A few panels with dead bodies in an embalming room. One of the bodies is severely injured in the chest (could count as body horror-ish)aardwyrm's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Child abuse, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Homophobia, and Suicide
rsmry's review against another edition
5.0
One criticism I have is that she never explicitly called her father a pedophile. I know a lot of things, like his abuse of his family members, is explicit in the drawings but less severe sounding in the text, and it's a great writing tool to show the audience the reality of her childhood while talking around the issue in text, emphasizing her inherited struggle in talking to/about her family. But in the context of a society that ignores/dismisses pedophilia a little too often, I think being explicit about using a word we find so repulsive and connecting it to his actions is important.
And one specific note: on page 108 she kind of sets up two options for herself had she been part of her father's generation -- "Would I have had the guts to be one of those Eisenhower-era butches? Or would I have married and sought succor from my high school students?"
Though phrasing it like these were her two options makes sense given that the novel is reflecting on and drawing comparisons between her and her father's lives, this felt jarring when I read it because it considers pedophilia so casually, and the either/or phrasing of those two panels poses these hypotheticals as the only two options. I'm uncomfortable with how this associates closeted homosexuality with pedophilia given the history of homophobes painting queer people as sexually perverse people who prey on children.
Although pedophilia is a weighty topic, I think these are relatively small criticisms -- like, she definitely doesn't paint her father's actions in a good light. Overall she covered complicated topics and complicated relationships really well.
Graphic: Pedophilia, Child abuse, and Domestic abuse
marthadude's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Car accident, Death of parent, Death, Infidelity, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Pedophilia, Outing, Mental illness, Lesbophobia, Homophobia, Emotional abuse, and Grief
Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Sexual content, and Child abuse
Minor: Domestic abuse, Religious bigotry, and Sexism