Reviews tagging 'Injury/Injury detail'

Creep: Accusations and Confessions by Myriam Gurba

3 reviews

nordstina's review

medium-paced

3.75

Creep is an intense essay collection filled with strong emotion, sometimes anger, sometimes with humor. One needs to be in the right mindset to read, but this is ultimately an extremely rewarding read. Many of the essays highlight how some of her identities (woman, Mexican, queer) can run up against systemic, passive, and overt hate. She grows up in California in the areas where much of the country's produce is grown, mostly by immigrants, sidling up against very white and very wealthy areas. She attends Catholic school with teachers with regressive views. A favorite essay is her takedown of the book American Dirt and its author (well-deserved). She ends with the most challenging essay, where the book takes its title from where she chronicles the abusive relationship she had, which was an incredibly tough read. Gurba is a strong writer and a strong woman. I look forward to reading future work of hers.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Racism, Sexual harassment, Sexism, Sexual assault, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, Sexual violence, and Injury/Injury detail

emelynreads's review

dark emotional funny reflective medium-paced

5.0

This is a book I wanted to savor, sit down and contemplate, reading only two or three essays at a time. It's powerful, funny, and written with tangential style that pleased my dopamine addicted brain. Also, the TEA on the author's own family and popular authors is piping! 

I'm a huge fan of the author's ability to write on challenging subjects with a balance of humor, reflection, vulnerability and truth. One of my favorite books to date.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Rape, Stalking, Domestic abuse, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Murder, Racism, Sexual harassment, and Sexual violence

Minor: Child abuse, Death, Genocide, Injury/Injury detail, and Suicide

caseythereader's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative medium-paced

4.25

Thanks to Avid Reader Press for the free copy of this book.

 - CREEP is a collection of essays that are part memoir, part historical exploration, all righteous rage.
- Gurba is a master at channeling her experiences into sentences that cut right to the heart of the problem and of the reader.
- This book is a tough read. But if you're up for it, it's a truly excellent excoriation of the many overlapping systems that make space for predators to thrive. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Deportation, Murder, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Emotional abuse, Grief, Animal death, Cursing, Addiction, Antisemitism, Bullying, Domestic abuse, Gaslighting, Gun violence, Homophobia, Death, Death of parent, Classism, Colonisation, Confinement, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Blood, Child abuse, and Violence