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Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head by Warsan Shire

14 reviews

satanne's review against another edition

dark informative reflective sad

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Xenophobia, Death of parent, Racism, Hate crime, Emotional abuse, Eating disorder, Pregnancy, Violence, War, Suicide, Miscarriage, Medical trauma, Death, Abortion, Rape, and Sexual assault

lady_bountiful's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Eating disorder, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, Sexual assault, and Child abuse

litletters's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Racism, War, Eating disorder, Violence, Rape, Xenophobia, and Sexual violence

krys_kilz's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective fast-paced

4.5

Julia Alvarez's review of this collection sums up my feelings: "This fierce and compelling book of poems should come with a warning label: These poems will break your heart."

My favorite poems in the collection were: Assimilation, Home, Midnight in the Foreign Food Aisle, Backwards, Hooyo Isn’t Home, and Bless the Gun Tossed into a River. 

"Dear Uncle, is everything you love foreign
or are you foreign to everything you love?"

- from Midnight in the Foreign Food Aisle

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Rape, and Child abuse

Moderate: Death, War, and Racism

Minor: Suicide and Eating disorder

jaiari12's review against another edition

dark emotional fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Racism, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Rape, Misogyny, Violence, Child abuse, Death, Murder, Child death, Body horror, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Terminal illness, and War

Minor: Blood, Miscarriage, Abortion, Cursing, and Pregnancy

madanxiety's review against another edition

reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

The one that stood out to me the most was I think called backwards? It was about re-writing one's life. Audiobooks don't always have an accurate table of contents, particularly with poems, but I really appreciated the rhythm or sound of that poem. I also didn't realized until I got to it that Shire is the author of the poem Beyoncé referenced in her visual album, Lemonade. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Rape, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Racism, War, and Xenophobia

Minor: Eating disorder

faduma's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring reflective sad tense

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Religious bigotry, Sexual content, Sexual assault, Classism, Gun violence, Misogyny, Pregnancy, Racial slurs, Torture, Trafficking, Colonisation, Confinement, Cultural appropriation, Racism, Rape, Physical abuse, Sexual violence, Violence, War, Body shaming, Child abuse, Gore, Grief, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, and Medical trauma

melio22's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Death, Sexual violence, and Eating disorder

inamerata's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad

5.0

Absolutely stunning. The imagery, the word choice, the pacing, the emotions, the craft -- I lack the words to describe how good this is. This book deals in quite heavy topics, but if you are able, I definitely recommend it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Rape, and Child abuse

Moderate: Violence, Racism, Sexual violence, Xenophobia, Death, Grief, and War

Minor: Cancer, Cannibalism, Eating disorder, and Suicide

venetiana's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense slow-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Hate crime, Rape, Blood, Racism, Murder, Eating disorder, Death, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Confinement, Cancer, Abortion, War, Child death, Violence, Vomit, Trafficking, Torture, Terminal illness, Suicide, Sexual violence, Sexual content, Sexual assault, Body shaming, Alcohol, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual harassment, Fire/Fire injury, Police brutality, Physical abuse, Murder, Misogyny, Miscarriage, Medical content, Mental illness, Infidelity, Grief, Domestic abuse, Deportation, Child abuse, and Abandonment