Reviews tagging 'Suicide attempt'

An Indian Among Los Indígenas: A Native Travel Memoir by Ursula Pike

7 reviews

isalime's review

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

I’ve never read a travel memoir before and it’s not a genre I actively seek out. I was worried it would be boring and I was wrong. I was engaged the whole time and reflective wit Ursula as she described her time in Bolivia

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Infidelity

Moderate: Racism

Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, and Pregnancy

deb_prosp's review

adventurous emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

3.75

Ursula Pike's experiences as a Native American Peace Corps volunteer in rural Bolivia was eye opening. It's definitely a needed voice in travel writing, and it's a humble voice that simultaneously recognises its own privilege within the context of LatAm. It was a personal story that I couldn't quite put down and I read it in one to two sittings. However, it did feel as though the end of the memoir focused completely on the personal love life of the author instead of looking at the community in which she was stationed. I wanted to know more about Teresa and Ximenita. What did they do everyday? Where did they go? What were their lives like? Perhaps I'm projecting my own unfair expectations on the very genre of memoir, but I was hoping this travel memoir would be more centred on others' stories, as the nature of a tourist-traveller is to exist within a liminal space that doesn't quite feel grounded. For that reason, this memoir felt like it never really started and never really ended. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt

Minor: Colonisation

mixedgirlreading's review

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt and Self harm

amberinpieces's review against another edition

adventurous emotional informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Classism, Infidelity, Self harm, Injury/Injury detail, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Misogyny, Vomit, Colonisation, and Mental illness

Minor: Addiction, Pregnancy, Rape, Sexual content, Alcoholism, Car accident, Cultural appropriation, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Fatphobia, and Sexism

syntaxx's review against another edition

emotional informative slow-paced

3.0

Proof that even indigenous women can be cringe in the right situation.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Infidelity

ecarper's review

challenging reflective medium-paced

3.75

Very interesting and offers the question: how do you work for a neocolonial institution whilst not being a colonial force yourself? 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts and Suicide attempt

questingnotcoasting's review against another edition

challenging reflective sad medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, Self harm, Mental illness, and Infidelity

Moderate: Racism, Xenophobia, Sexual content, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Sexism