Reviews tagging 'Death'

Paying the Land by Joe Sacco

5 reviews

franz_comme_kafka's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Domestic abuse, Death, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Sexual assault, Suicide attempt, Physical abuse, Addiction, Colonisation, Animal death, Genocide, Xenophobia, Forced institutionalization, and Drug use

Moderate: Suicide, Incest, and Bullying

Minor: Blood and Mental illness

minkkmuse's review

informative reflective sad slow-paced

3.75

 amazed and compelled by how much detail and empathy sacco’s ethnographic research contains 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Alcoholism

Moderate: Sexual violence, Child abuse, Drug abuse, and Racism

bookbuzzard's review

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

Though I'm not as familiar with the subject matter as I'd like, I think this book does a really great job showing us a variety of perspectives from the Dene people and telling us their stories. 
This book, like Sacco's other books, is very narration heavy, with lots of small print in small boxes that can often be hard to read and absorb, I often find myself reading one page over and over. However, overall, I am glad to have read it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Racism, Religious bigotry, Animal death, Addiction, Alcohol, Drug abuse, Genocide, Alcoholism, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Kidnapping, Child abuse, and Colonisation

Moderate: Cursing, Rape, Sexual assault, Bullying, Child death, Domestic abuse, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Suicide, Sexual violence, and Death

Minor: Incest, Self harm, Grief, Death of parent, Racial slurs, and Pregnancy

annabunce's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional informative reflective medium-paced

4.5

Excellent read - a holistic look at Dene and their relationship to resource extraction, the impacts of colonization and residential schools, and the complexity of community politics. Would highly recommend to anyone although I do have some questions about whether any of the funds from this book were directed back to community and noticed a couple errors that made me wonder about the editing process (ex writing Inuits instead of Inuit)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Child abuse, Child death, Colonisation, Death, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Genocide, Grief, Kidnapping, Racism, Sexual violence, and Suicide

usedtotheweather's review

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Death, Child abuse, and Physical abuse