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katielaine_w's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Grief, Miscarriage, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Toxic relationship
Moderate: Dysphoria, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, and Racism
Minor: Alcohol, Body shaming, Cancer, Car accident, Death, Infidelity, Medical content, and Terminal illness
tallhousecookies's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Rape, Sexual assault, Violence, and Child abuse
Moderate: Pregnancy, Racism, Pedophilia, and Death
Minor: Terminal illness
emfass's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Rape, Sexual assault, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Death, Sexual violence, Sexism, Misogyny, Medical content, Medical trauma, Grief, Cancer, Pedophilia, Confinement, Body shaming, Animal death, and Gaslighting
Moderate: Animal cruelty, Forced institutionalization, Pregnancy, Panic attacks/disorders, and Toxic relationship
valerie_elaine's review against another edition
5.0
Moderate: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, and Toxic relationship
Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Bullying, Panic attacks/disorders, and Pregnancy
arlangrey17's review against another edition
4.25
Moderate: Cancer, Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Gaslighting, Grief, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Toxic relationship
leighannebfd3b's review against another edition
4.75
Graphic: Confinement, Death, Grief, Rape, Sexual assault, and Toxic relationship
Moderate: Medical content, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, and Pregnancy
Minor: Abandonment, Body shaming, Child abuse, and Domestic abuse
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
patricia_epub's review against another edition
4.0
“When you write about you and me? Just tell the truth. Your truth. Don’t worry about nobody’s feelings, especially not mine. You gotta be tough to tell your truth, but it’s the only thing worth doing next to loving somebody.”
This is a pleasant, spontaneous read that I am so glad I picked up (or clicked on, rather). Ashley C. Ford is a thoughtful writer and this fact shone through the way she wrote her memoir. Her experiences were deeply emotional, scarring, and painful—but she told her story, her truth, with the careful gentleness of someone who struggled for a long time but has also started healing (and continues to heal up to this day), someone who's been learning to be kinder to their selves. She wrote with understanding of the people who shaped her, good and bad. Wrote with sobriety that I think accorded much more nuance to the tone of her memoir.
As I said in my initial impression of this book, there is just so much to unpack. The Black experience is there tied with poverty, trauma, and the universal struggles of women: sexualization of women’s bodies, rape, and assault. There is also the inescapable struggle to reconcile her trauma with her absent father, and the truth behind his absence. Her tumultuous relationship with a detached, abusive single mother. The complicated feelings she associates with a grandmother who is both her loving caregiver but also her harshest critic.
I am truly glad to have heard this story from the author herself through her wonderful narration of the audiobook.
Moderate: Emotional abuse, Child abuse, Sexual violence, Miscarriage, Pregnancy, Rape, and Sexual assault
Minor: Pedophilia, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Body shaming, Stalking, Bullying, Misogyny, and Panic attacks/disorders
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