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theboricuabookworm's review against another edition
Gripping and raw. The lyrical way Mailhot writes about pain and trauma and grief will leave you gasping.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Grief, Incest, Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, Rape, Suicide attempt, Physical abuse, Alcoholism, Cursing, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Pregnancy, Suicidal thoughts, Child abuse, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Abandonment, Classism, Drug use, Sexual assault, and Alcohol
seeceeread's review against another edition
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
💠"Séliš stories are a lot like its art: sparse and interested in blank space; the work must be striking."
This is a torrent. Relentless, stream-of-conscious nonsequiturs circle back to each other. The book is a menacing bath of tales: assault and need and love and violence and therapy and mothering and child separation and tenderness and despair and and and . Mailhot seems to want to purge the hurt, to exorcise her uncertainty by naming: she has felt, craved, demanded, retreated.
I winced to witness, to relive so intimately all that has sliced her.The author nicks as she tells us of the small ladder she carved into her arm while pregnant. Like her girlhood self, we are coaxed and cornered into small spaces with the grotesque, wondering if it's safe to speak, to look away. I wanted to hold her at times, a quiet listener as an irregular heartbeat sang of heartache. At others, I wanted to run away, to commit violence against her selfish lover and to snap her into nonchalance. These whiplashes of emotion and intention mirror hers, further evidence she submerged me.
💠"The tips of your fingers felt like wet grapes. I wanted to bite every one."
Expect to be nipped.
This is a torrent. Relentless, stream-of-conscious nonsequiturs circle back to each other. The book is a menacing bath of tales:
I winced to witness, to relive so intimately all that has sliced her.
💠"The tips of your fingers felt like wet grapes. I wanted to bite every one."
Expect to be nipped.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Self harm, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual violence, Infidelity, Sexual assault, Suicide attempt, Violence, Abandonment, Classism, Colonisation, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Toxic relationship, Grief, Suicide, and Child abuse
Moderate: Emotional abuse, Colonisation, Addiction, Alcoholism, and Classism
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