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4.35 AVERAGE
4.35 AVERAGE
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inspiring
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It feels weird to rate this book since it is a story of real life and history that's not my own. But I enjoyed learning and listening to the history of Crownsville. I think the author did a wonderful job of explaining the history with the limited resources available.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Racism
emotional
informative
medium-paced
You can tell that this book was written with time and care. It's deeply evocative without sensationalism. Humanized these stories. Well researched and comprehensive. It takes great lengths to provide cultural context. It's deeply personal for the author.
I feel better for having read this. It's an important and forgotten part of African American history. Beautiful, harrowing, frankly powerful stuff.
I feel better for having read this. It's an important and forgotten part of African American history. Beautiful, harrowing, frankly powerful stuff.
dark
emotional
informative
reflective
sad
medium-paced
challenging
dark
emotional
informative
sad
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I think I was expecting something slightly different in terms of an analysis of mental health and policy.
challenging
dark
informative
slow-paced
challenging
dark
informative
sad
medium-paced
A mix of memoir and informational non-nonfiction. Blending the author’s experience of having family members who have mental health conditions and chronicling the history of the Crownsville Hospital asylum. Through exposing the history of the asylum and centering the Black patients and staff in the narrative, the author examines how race (racism), mental health, and “crime” intersect.
challenging
dark
emotional
sad
slow-paced
challenging
medium-paced