Reviews tagging 'Racism'

I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home by Lorrie Moore

2 reviews

humanblight's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional funny reflective fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Morality is not always *good* or *bad* when it comes to how we related to one another in our past. How we could relate to one another once again. Social customs are furniture around real living flumes of connections and signals.
Perhaps feeling deadened by life and simultaneously longing for the real deadness when existence gets tough, or just inconvenient, isn’t so abnormal - people write about it all the time !

One last thing : anyone that has held the hand of the dying can attest to a rotting that is simply bodily, not at all spiritual. It’s only the living that rot when we can’t find the jovial, aggressive parts of ourselves any longer. 

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Racism, Racial slurs, and Terminal illness

Minor: Pedophilia, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , War, Murder, and Slavery

caseythereader's review against another edition

funny reflective sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

1.5

Wtf was the point of that?

Thanks AAKnopf for the free advance copy of this book. 

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Murder, Body horror, Suicide attempt, Death, Medical content, Cancer, Animal death, Suicide, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Ableism and Racism

Minor: Sexual content