Reviews tagging 'Cursing'

The Undocumented Americans by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio

11 reviews

8675309mp's review against another edition

challenging informative medium-paced

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism and Cursing

Moderate: Cancer, Abandonment, Deportation, and Colonisation

Minor: Self harm, Drug use, Suicidal thoughts, and Alcoholism

bedtimesandbooks's review against another edition

emotional informative sad medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Grief, Cursing, Addiction, Racism, Chronic illness, Deportation, Xenophobia, Alcoholism, Classism, Murder, Infidelity, Death of parent, Panic attacks/disorders, Cancer, and Suicidal thoughts

avery_lehman54's review against another edition

challenging dark informative reflective sad fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Drug use, Suicidal thoughts, and Mental illness

Moderate: Cancer, Police brutality, and Self harm

Minor: Mental illness, Pandemic/Epidemic, Abandonment, Domestic abuse, Slavery, Panic attacks/disorders, Deportation, Addiction, Alcoholism, and Infidelity

readingwithcoffee's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing

christynhoover's review against another edition

funny informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.5

Eye-opening visits with and interviews of working-class Latino/a  immigrants --"illegal" ones-- in the US. Plus there's autobiographical input of the author who grew up as an illegal immigrant (with her illegal-immigrant parents) in the US.  

I've never fully grasped the level of unrelenting stress and fear that the undocumented live with 24/7, year after year, in the US. Until I read this book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing and Deportation

gialynn521's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Addiction, Cancer, Chronic illness, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, and Racism

Minor: Grief, Police brutality, and Cursing

sholcomb's review against another edition

dark emotional informative inspiring sad medium-paced

5.0

This book is soooo informative and beautiful. also heartbreakingly sad. this is a must read, especially for people who don’t understand the full extent of the daily hardships immigrants face just to be in America. It’s horrible and heartbreaking.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Suicide attempt, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Cancer, Chronic illness, and Cursing

omemlette's review against another edition

informative reflective sad fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Xenophobia, Racism, Death, and Cursing

skudiklier's review

challenging dark emotional funny reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

This book is heartbreaking, amazing, raw, important, and at times darkly funny. I knew I would be glad I read this book, but there's something about Karla Cornejo Villavicencio's voice that makes me want to listen to everything she says. Some of the things described in this book made me incredibly angry and incredibly sad, and all of it felt so so real. I think anyone who considers themselves American should read this book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Xenophobia, Terminal illness, Racism, Police brutality, Medical content, Drug abuse, and Cursing

Moderate: Self harm, Suicide attempt, Terminal illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Medical trauma, Infidelity, Gun violence, Grief, Death of parent, Death, Chronic illness, Cancer, Alcohol, and Abandonment

Minor: Animal death, Body shaming, Colonisation, Fatphobia, and Mass/school shootings

mlgardner1's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative medium-paced

3.5

Great info. Lots of language but really important info that I did not yet know. Thanks to the author for creating this for the world.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing and Racism

Moderate: Abandonment, Suicidal thoughts, and Mental illness