Reviews tagging 'Abandonment'

Pageboy by Elliot Page

18 reviews

theverycraftyvegan's review against another edition

hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

“It’s not trans people who suffer from a sickness, but the society that fosters such hate.” - Elliot Page

A wonderfully hopeful yet sometimes heartbreaking book about life as a trans person as told by a trans person. And not just any person but a celebrity. Because of this book I now know how horrible things were for Elliot before he came out, when he first came out, and when he came out again.

The chapters where he reflects on his parents, their reactions, and how they treated him broke me into a million pieces. I love my children and always will; no matter who they are or grow up to be. 

Elliot describing what it felt like to finally be able to be his true self and feel comfortable in his skin was so powerful. I’m glad the world has him and this memoir. 

Though will say, speaking as a Canadian myself, Elliot talks about ketchup chips a lot. I’m surprised he didn’t bring up Tim Hortons more. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Rape, Suicidal thoughts, Emotional abuse, Sexual violence, Body shaming, Child abuse, Deadnaming, Bullying, Homophobia, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Lesbophobia, Dysphoria, Pandemic/Epidemic, Abandonment, Alcohol, Body horror, Gaslighting, Hate crime, Self harm, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, and Transphobia

Moderate: Stalking, Infidelity, and Drug use

pearlisarobot's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism, Self harm, Panic attacks/disorders, Homophobia, Hate crime, Abandonment, Bullying, Stalking, Sexual assault, Child abuse, Mental illness, Medical content, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic friendship, Adult/minor relationship, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Deadnaming, Sexual harassment, Sexual content, Pandemic/Epidemic, Misogyny, Emotional abuse, Eating disorder, Lesbophobia, Dysphoria, and Cursing

Moderate: Alcohol and Drug use

Minor: Pedophilia

eleasereads's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Blood, Bullying, Domestic abuse, Dysphoria, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Lesbophobia, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Outing, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Suicide, Body shaming, Child abuse, Deadnaming, Eating disorder, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, Transphobia, Medical content, Self harm, Stalking, Toxic friendship, and Toxic relationship

caseythereader's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Transphobia, Sexual assault, Stalking, Abandonment, Child abuse, Cursing, Dysphoria, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Medical content, Pandemic/Epidemic, and Self harm

_jennaalbright_'s review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Child abuse, Eating disorder, Deadnaming, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Alcohol, Body shaming, Homophobia, and Transphobia

rayreyes's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

3.5

I love EP and appreciate his vulnerability in this piece. However, the majority of the novel was challenging. Pedophelia, non consensual physical advances, parental abuse/neglect, parental abandonment/narcissism… yowza was this a potluck of triumph and pain. Not what I had in mind going into it, but I’m grateful for the read. It was really nice being able to trust his account of things so easily; he’s able to hold the good and the imperfect about himself and his choices so earnestly and mindfully compassionate that it was clear the work he’s done. Bravo for lovely people 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Transphobia, Body shaming, Pedophilia, Sexism, Sexual content, Stalking, Child abuse, Homophobia, Misogyny, Toxic relationship, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Sexual assault, Abandonment, Rape, Self harm, Adult/minor relationship, Deadnaming, Dysphoria, Emotional abuse, and Outing

Minor: Drug use, Medical content, Suicidal thoughts, Excrement, and Pandemic/Epidemic

kshertz's review against another edition

hopeful informative sad medium-paced

4.5

This memoir was so important for me to read. I feel like it was so important for Elliot to write. I definitely thought it was the right amount in terms of length and information given. I think Elliot might come out with another book maybe 20 years in the future that will have even more revelations. But I definitely recommend this to any person that has trans friends or family or just wants to understand a trans person a little more. I definitely agree with Elliot that this is only one person’s story but hearing his story just made a world of difference to me to help me to understand everything that a trans person might go through.  The only reason it’s not five stars is because he definitely name drops a lot of people and I just hope that he got permission from them to do that and because I haven’t heard if that’s true or not I kind of have some empathy for people who are name dropped here that might not want to be

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Content Warnings

Minor: Transphobia, Deadnaming, Eating disorder, Gaslighting, Dysphoria, Adult/minor relationship, Sexual assault, Emotional abuse, Medical content, Self harm, Abandonment, Body shaming, Bullying, and Suicidal thoughts

auteaandtales's review against another edition

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Rape, Homophobia, and Bullying

Moderate: Transphobia, Abandonment, Excrement, Child abuse, Vomit, Sexism, and Stalking