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vixenreader's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
funny
informative
reflective
sad
medium-paced
3.75
As a book written in prose, please be mindful of taking your time with the text. It is not a book that you should breeze through.
Graphic: Colonisation, Child abuse, Classism, Abandonment, Fire/Fire injury, Racial slurs, Cultural appropriation, Xenophobia, and Racism
Moderate: Drug use, Grief, Forced institutionalization, Death, Addiction, and Alcoholism
Minor: Death of parent and Homophobia
A huge warning for intergenerational trauma and discussion about residential schools.bookish_bry's review against another edition
emotional
informative
reflective
fast-paced
4.5
This was a very interesting read. I especially liked how it was ended. (It bumped it up from a 4 to a 4.5.) The middle seemed to drag just a touch to me, though part of that may have been that I was listening to the audiobook and not reading on the page.
Also the way the author wove different time periods of his life together throughout the book was artful. This really is more poetry than a novel a lot of the time. I may have to pick up a physical copy or at least go to the mentioned website to see the photos as a feel that was a big part of the story I missed.
I think it was a very good way to contend with if not to answer that question of how to deal with one's loss of culture.
Also the way the author wove different time periods of his life together throughout the book was artful. This really is more poetry than a novel a lot of the time. I may have to pick up a physical copy or at least go to the mentioned website to see the photos as a feel that was a big part of the story I missed.
I think it was a very good way to contend with if not to answer that question of how to deal with one's loss of culture.
Graphic: Racism
Moderate: Alcohol, Death of parent, and Fire/Fire injury
makenna_reads's review against another edition
challenging
informative
inspiring
reflective
sad
medium-paced
4.0
Graphic: Death of parent, Cultural appropriation, Car accident, Bullying, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Addiction, Abandonment, Forced institutionalization, Mental illness, Kidnapping, Homophobia, Racism, Racial slurs, Police brutality, Grief, Hate crime, Fire/Fire injury, and Death
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