Reviews tagging 'Death of parent'

All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake by Tiya Miles

4 reviews

bunceyyy's review against another edition

challenging dark hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense slow-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body shaming, Classism, Murder, Physical abuse, Rape, Suicide, Child abuse, Child death, Kidnapping, Racial slurs, Racism, Trafficking, Violence, Death of parent, Adult/minor relationship, Domestic abuse, Misogyny, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, and Colonisation

book_fish's review against another edition

informative reflective slow-paced

4.0

This book is like a museum talk by a really smart professor. Lot of cool info, but definitely wordy. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Grief, Death of parent, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Physical abuse, Racism, Racial slurs, Colonisation, Violence, Adult/minor relationship, Rape, and Slavery

willowblack09's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Rape, Adult/minor relationship, Child death, Death of parent, Grief, Racism, Sexual assault, Death, Physical abuse, Sexual violence, Slavery, Trafficking, Violence, and Classism

sarah984's review against another edition

challenging inspiring reflective slow-paced

4.0

This book uses a single object - a bag given to a daughter by her mother - to illustrate the history of the region, the cruelties of slavery and the resilience of Black women. The writing places the bag and its contents in a historical context and then extrapolates on the history of the women associated through the scant archival record and similar narratives by others. I learned a lot from this.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Slavery, and Trafficking

Moderate: Colonisation, Confinement, Grief, Misogyny, Sexual harassment, Child abuse, Torture, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Physical abuse, Rape, and Religious bigotry

Minor: Child death, Death, War, Adult/minor relationship, Death of parent, Pregnancy, and Racial slurs