Reviews tagging 'Violence'

Dog Flowers: A Memoir by Danielle Geller

5 reviews

leezreads's review

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Sexual assault, Violence, and Alcoholism

betyourbuttons's review

challenging emotional reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

Heart wrenching, raw, & real, like sitting across the kitchen table late at night with a friend, learning things you never knew before. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Death of parent, and Domestic abuse

Moderate: Violence and Suicide attempt

sophnbooks's review

challenging dark emotional sad medium-paced

4.0

It’s hard to ever find the words to “review” a memoir. However, this is a challenging story of a Navajo woman grieving her mother after she passes and it’s very well organized. The author, Danielle Geller, even includes photographs and documents that correspond with the passages. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Alcohol, Addiction, Sexual content, Grief, Drug abuse, and Death of parent

Moderate: Abandonment, Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Cursing, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, and Violence

Minor: Colonisation, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Grief, Medical content, and Mental illness

sjanke2's review

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.5

 This book felt like a meeting point of In the Night of Memory and Carry: A Memoir of Survival on Stolen Land. As a reader, I connected with Geller's former professions of walking streets during a political campaign (grueling) and being an information professional. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Child abuse, Grief, Mental illness, Sexual violence, Suicide attempt, Toxic relationship, and Violence

caseythereader's review

challenging dark emotional reflective sad fast-paced

4.25

 📚 This use of the archive of Geller's life is incredible. It's such a unique structure for a memoir.
📚 Additionally, the photographs and other items help to remind the reader that this isn't just a parade of anonymous events, it's the life of a family.
📚 Reading a description of something awful her father did and then looking him in the eye on the next page...I can't even find words for it.
📚 There's so much in here about generational trauma and cycles of addiction and abuse, and yet, there is a feeling of healing and growth by the end of the book, even though things aren't "fixed" or "solved." 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Death, Death of parent, Dementia, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Gun violence, Infidelity, Medical content, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Toxic relationship, and Violence