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4.52 AVERAGE
4.52 AVERAGE
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A gorgeous read. The author has done an amazing job creating a landscape to tell her story and I loved immersing myself in it.
Though the subject was difficult, it was refreshing in a way to hear the perspective of another fat queer woman, and eye opening to compare our lives. I had to buy the kindle version so I could highlight the parts that really stuck with me and I’m glad I did.
Though the subject was difficult, it was refreshing in a way to hear the perspective of another fat queer woman, and eye opening to compare our lives. I had to buy the kindle version so I could highlight the parts that really stuck with me and I’m glad I did.
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fast-paced
god i adored this. i love you memoirs about abuse in new and unconventional ways. i love you books that make you google new terms and words and tropes every few paragraphs. i love you books that make me have the text of alice in wonderland open on my phone while i read sections. i love you books that engage broadly with culture and literature and genre and cliche. i love you books obviously written by english majors that are also about how to deal with the version of you that was abused and how to move on and how to make a life after something bad has happened and how to realize your pain is actually something very base and common even though when it happened you thought it was new and incredible and happened to you alone.
so good. sooooo good
so good. sooooo good
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This is a remarkable and unique memoirish collection of vignettes chronicling Carmen Maria Machado's abusive relationship. Not only does she offer firsthand insights into domestic violence, which isn't always physical, but in particular domestic violence in lesbian relationships. Her story, like most victims of abuse, is a complex history with no definitive end, so her use of chapter titles as genre tropes give her some structure and smooth closure to the book, as much as one could manage anyway.
dark
emotional
reflective
slow-paced
challenging
dark
emotional
informative
reflective
slow-paced