Reviews tagging 'Domestic abuse'

The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother by James McBride

2 reviews

vaekay's review

challenging emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Drug use, Medical content, Misogyny, Death of parent, Physical abuse, Alcohol, Antisemitism, Bullying, Death, Domestic abuse, Hate crime, Incest, Police brutality, Abandonment, Abortion, Chronic illness, Infidelity, Cancer, Child abuse, Classism, Cursing, Pedophilia, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Violence, Xenophobia, Pregnancy, Racial slurs, Religious bigotry, Sexual violence, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Ableism, Addiction, and Gun violence

Minor: Genocide, Medical trauma, Murder, Slavery, Adult/minor relationship, and Car accident

morgcailie's review against another edition

emotional reflective tense slow-paced

4.5

"There was a part of me that feared black power very deeply, for the obvious reason. I thought black power would be the end of my mother." God this hit so hard I could write a goddamn essay just on this quote. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse and Racism

Moderate: Antisemitism

Minor: Abortion