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weaverca's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Cancer, Terminal illness, Grief, and Death of parent
Moderate: Drug use, Medical content, and Car accident
Minor: Addiction, Drug abuse, Infidelity, and Abortion
robyn_elouise's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Cancer and Death of parent
Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Infidelity, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, Car accident, and Abortion
rieviolet's review against another edition
5.0
I loved the way food was a focal point throughout the narration, how its connection with one's cultural heritage was so strongly and beautifully illustrated. It really prompted me to reflect on the food I've grown up with and its significance for my own selfhood.
The linguist in me also really appreciated the lovely reflections on language and on a mother tongue.
The writing style was just *chef's kiss*. There were so many passages that I kept re-reading thinking to myself "How could she manage to capture this feeling with such poignant words and turn of phrases?", I was just floored.
My mother had struggled to understand me just as I struggled to understand her. Thrown as we were on opposite sides of a fault line - generational, cultural, linguistic - we wandered lost without a reference point, each of us unintelligible to the other's expectations, until these past few years when we had just begun to unlock the mystery, carve the psychic space to accommodate each other, appreciate the differences between us, linger in our refracted commonalities. Then, what would have been the most fruitful years of understanding were cut violently short, and I was left alone to decipher the secrets of inheritance without its key.
Graphic: Cancer, Suicidal thoughts, Medical content, Grief, and Death of parent
Moderate: Alcoholism, Animal death, Child abuse, Death, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Racism, Violence, Excrement, Vomit, Car accident, and Alcohol
Minor: Addiction, Drug use, Rape, Abortion, and Injury/Injury detail
sageysage's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Cancer, Chronic illness, Terminal illness, and Death of parent
Minor: Eating disorder and Infidelity
sambashua's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Cancer, Death, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Terminal illness, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, and Death of parent
Moderate: Eating disorder, Infidelity, and Car accident
paulrichard's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Terminal illness, Grief, and Death of parent
Moderate: Car accident
Minor: Addiction and Infidelity
dhritigupta's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Cancer, Chronic illness, Death, Terminal illness, Grief, Medical trauma, and Death of parent
Moderate: Infidelity and Suicidal thoughts
Minor: Car accident
writewithapendragon's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Cancer
Moderate: Cancer, Chronic illness, Terminal illness, Excrement, Medical content, Death of parent, and Alcohol
Minor: Child abuse, Infidelity, and Abortion
janabg's review against another edition
Graphic: Cancer, Death, Death of parent, and Abandonment
Moderate: Child abuse and Terminal illness
Minor: Addiction, Body shaming, Infidelity, and Vomit
e_reader's review against another edition
5.0
She also skillfully wove a story of her and her mother’s lives. There were many many time jumps explaining past events, and never once was I confused about when we were.
Graphic: Addiction, Cancer, Death, Mental illness, Terminal illness, Excrement, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, and Death of parent
Minor: Infidelity and Abortion