Reviews tagging 'Child death'

Ghosts of the Tsunami: Death and Life in Japan's Disaster Zone by Richard Lloyd Parry

18 reviews

slefebvre95's review against another edition

dark emotional informative mysterious reflective sad slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, and Death

hcgambrell's review against another edition

dark emotional informative sad medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Child death, and Grief

fanchera's review

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense slow-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Grief, Death, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Suicide and Mental illness

Minor: Infertility and Animal death

beholderess's review against another edition

informative sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Grief, and Gore

Moderate: Death of parent

ish7's review against another edition

emotional informative sad medium-paced

3.5

Ghosts of the Tsunami is an examination of the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, and the effects it had on the coastal inhabitants that faced its brunt. At times, it is a tearjerker - there is no way you can read the account of a woman who has lost her children, of men who lost their homes and livelihoods and entire families, of children who lost their schools and friends and family members, without crying. The sad reality that was hidden from us, from the world, is laid bare, and it is difficult to swallow. A tsunami is one of those forces of nature that we cannot do much about other than run. But once you've ran and survived, the story is not over. I hadn't paid much attention to the practicalities of living beyond a disaster. This book brought me face to face with my own ignorance, willful and otherwise. 

A drawback, of course, is that the narrator is a white man. We are being explained another culture through his lens. Who knows what has been lost in translation, or mistranslated, or skewed through a Western lens? There were times when I wished I was reading a book by a Japanese journalist, someone from the region perhaps. But maybe those books exist and it is on me to go find them. Notes to self I suppose. Definitely worth the read. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death

jameswilbourn's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.75

I have loved this book even if it's sometimes really hard and sad. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death

tourthebookshelf's review against another edition

dark emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death of parent, Gore, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, and Grief

The contents discuss the 2011 tsunami and specifically the deaths of a large number of children and the effect it had on the local area. It discusses the discovery of multiple bodies throughout but it is not gratuitous imho

atomicwren's review against another edition

dark emotional informative medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death and Death

danielle95's review against another edition

emotional sad

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death and Death

ehmannky's review against another edition

dark emotional informative sad medium-paced

5.0

A really heartbreaking look at the aftermath of the 2011 tsunami that hit Japan, particularly at the decision-making failures at Okawa Elementary School that led to 74 of the students and most of the staff drowning during the tsunami. It’s very sad and well-reported, without being sensationalized. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death of parent, and Death