Reviews tagging 'Colonisation'

Sick: A Memoir by Porochista Khakpour

1 review

hamstringy's review against another edition

slow-paced

3.0

I don’t know how to feel about this. Maybe that’s the reason to read it. I swung between a hyper aware intimacy with the way Khakpour describes illness and a vague disgruntled apathy at the way I felt she was making the wrong choices. Which, I suppose, is an important thing to catch. Khakpour owes us no zen story of healing, of course, and I think she writes an important messy story that’s more common than people realize.  

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Car accident, Chronic illness, Colonisation, Alcoholism, Alcohol, Drug abuse, Drug use, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Miscarriage and Self harm