Reviews tagging 'Cursing'

Hey, Kiddo: How I Lost My Mother, Found My Father, and Dealt with Family Addiction by Jarrett J. Krosoczka

11 reviews

therainbowshelf's review against another edition

emotional tense slow-paced

5.0

Jarrett shares his experiences growing up with his grandparents after his mom lost herself in drugs and prison. This memoir recountd his childhood and takes a hard look at the complex emotions that he faced. I listened to the audiobook for a while before I realized it was a graphic novel and then I started reading them side by side. The audio naration adds so much to this book, otherwise I might have given this 4 stars instead. It's also fun that he got his whole family (and several teachers) involved in the audiobook! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Cursing, Drug abuse, Grief, and Racial slurs

Moderate: Miscarriage and Violence

Minor: Death of parent

familial abandonment, absent parent, parent in jail, trauma, emotionally distant caretakers, rejection of a teen who is pregnant, toxic parent-child relationships, a man abandoned a woman he got pregnant