Reviews tagging 'Suicidal thoughts'

The Undocumented Americans by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio

47 reviews

lizzy3009's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Minor: Self harm and Suicidal thoughts

ortizzyy's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense fast-paced

4.0

Using this for my book club and I look forward to the potential discussions. The publisher describes this book as weaving "memoir with reportage, ceative ethnography, and elements of fiction such as magical realism." I couldn't describe the genre(s) any better. I loved the author's voice. I learned a lot and I think she achieved her goal of writing about undocumented immigrants in a way never done before. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Self harm

Minor: Alcoholism and Cancer

clarabooksit's review against another edition

emotional fast-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Suicidal thoughts, and Mental illness

Moderate: Cancer, Death, and Abandonment

Major content warning for suicidal ideation. It’s explicit, casual, and comes up a lot.

priyas's review against another edition

fast-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism

Moderate: Alcohol, Drug use, Emotional abuse, and Mental illness

Minor: Racial slurs, Vomit, Suicidal thoughts, Panic attacks/disorders, and Addiction

ashleycmms's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Blood, Body horror, Bullying, Cancer, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Emotional abuse, Gore, Grief, Gun violence, Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Murder, Police brutality, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexual harassment, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Torture, Violence, and War

mandkips's review

challenging dark emotional

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Suicidal thoughts, and Mental illness

Moderate: Self harm and Death

Minor: Alcoholism and Confinement

christinesreads's review against another edition

challenging informative medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts

antonique_reads's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Terminal illness, Suicidal thoughts, Sexism, Racism, Police brutality, Panic attacks/disorders, Mental illness, Gun violence, and Alcoholism

natyosch's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts

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