Reviews tagging 'Racism'

Black Chameleon: Memory, Womanhood, and Myth by Deborah D.E.E.P. Mouton

3 reviews

fkshg8465's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring slow-paced

5.0

Lots of powerful poetry mixed with parables and mythologies written to create this picture sorrowful and continuously fierce memoir. She manipulated language in a most beautiful and spellbinding way.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Toxic friendship, Racism, Violence, Blood, Death of parent, Abandonment, Bullying, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Racial slurs, Death, Domestic abuse, Gaslighting, Fatphobia, and Sexual assault

morganstarks's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Racism, Gun violence, and Physical abuse

ablaine's review

challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective tense slow-paced

5.0

Memoirs are their own myths, and in this memoir, Deborah D.E.E.P. Mouton leans into this myth-making. By blurring the lines between straight ahead recounting and speculative fiction Mouton pens new fables centered around the experiences of Black women. 

I think this book is best read a little bit at a time to allow breathing room for reflection. The writing is fierce and dense. Each word has heft. This book is the opposite of fluff — even at its most dreamy.  While exploring beyond the limits of reality, Mouton remains entirely truthful

I received a digital advance reader copy from NetGalley and Henry Holt and Company in exchange for an honest review. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism

Moderate: Toxic relationship and Body horror