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caseythereader's review against another edition
5.0
- SOMEBODY'S DAUGHTER is an exploration of not only growing up and finding yourself, but finding your parents, too - the good and the bad parts of them. It's a book about loving difficult people, and holding conflicting parts of yourself and your loved ones at the same time.
- One thing that really stuck out to me is the way Ford illustrates how confusing childhood can be, when you're often punished for breaking rules you didn't know existed and the adults don't give any further explanation.
Graphic: Animal death, Blood, Cancer, Child death, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Excrement, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Medical content, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Pregnancy, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Terminal illness, and Violence
rebeccafarren's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Rape, Sexual assault, Physical abuse, and Emotional abuse
Minor: Racism
ahliahreads's review against another edition
4.75
Graphic: Physical abuse, Sexism, and Rape
Moderate: Racism
teamoxfordcomma's review against another edition
5.0
I was lucky enough to obtain an ALC through Libro.fm's bookseller program, and the audiobook is read by Ford herself. The experience of hearing Ford read her own words, her own story, sent this already excellent piece of writing into the stratosphere (at least for this reader). The author knows how to read their own words, y'know? And with a gifted wordsmith like Ashley C. Ford, this feels even more true.
This is not a memoir for the faint of heart. This is not a memoir for those looking for a frollicking beach read. That's not to say the whole book is downer-after-downer-after-downer – there are moments of levity and hope, humor and irony – but this is a book of searing honesty. It unapologetically reckons with the nasty underbelly of life, and it is masterful in doing so.
I would have enjoyed this book based on Ford's writing alone. Her sentences weave together to erect images and emotions only able to be wrought by the best of writers, and there were several passages I rewound just to listen to them again, and again, and again. But I also loved this memoir for the story it contains, the vulnerability with which Ford shares her experiences with some of the hardest things this life has to offer. In the span of the book, I raged, I mourned, I smiled, and I cried.
If there ever was a must-read memoir, I would wager to say this is it.
Graphic: Rape, Toxic relationship, Sexual assault, Physical abuse, Forced institutionalization, and Child abuse
Moderate: Body shaming, Death, and Racism
Minor: Child death
skudiklier's review against another edition
4.75
Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Body shaming, Cancer, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Excrement, Grief, Medical content, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Pregnancy, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Terminal illness, and Toxic relationship