Reviews tagging 'Sexual violence'

Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir by Natasha Trethewey

5 reviews

waytoomanybooks's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

4.5

It’s so hard reading memoirs where someone is going through something so challenging and so painful because all I want to do is step in and do something. Or I say, “Don’t do that! Do this!” As if “this” is easy. As if “this” is obvious. As if “this” is even something I would or could do myself. It’s a painful reminder that we don’t always or often see the big picture when we’re in the middle of it. That we could go through this exact same painful experience and get the exact same painful result. That maybe we’re not as smart, as brave, as strong as we’d like to think. What makes a memoir memorable are the ones ones that plumb the depths of human emotion and endurance, that wring you out, that make you have to get up and walk around before going back to the material. I think people write memoirs to remind the authors themselves and the readers of their shared humanity. The author is exposing their soul, and they’re asking their readers to help them take care of it. This is just such a memoir.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Domestic abuse, Misogyny, Chronic illness, Gun violence, Toxic relationship, Violence, Panic attacks/disorders, Abandonment, Gaslighting, Physical abuse, Sexual violence, Stalking, Injury/Injury detail, Suicidal thoughts, Child abuse, Death of parent, Drug use, Eating disorder, Grief, Mental illness, Death, Racial slurs, Sexism, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, and Murder

woahpip's review against another edition

reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Sexual violence, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, and Gun violence

wishbear's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Toxic relationship, Gun violence, Sexual violence, and Grief

thewellreadrunner's review

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Murder, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Racism and Sexual violence

hanvnah's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Grief, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Toxic relationship