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No Country for Eight-Spot Butterflies: A Lyric Essay by Julian Aguon

2 reviews

lucyatoz's review

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

No Country for Eight-Spot Butterflies by Julian Aguon, who is Chamorro, an Indigenous human rights lawyer, who founded his own law firm, Blue Ocean Law, and is a writer from Guam. 

This compact book of 112 pages has commencement speeches, short stories about his life and those of his family amidst poetry and essays. I appreciated the varied writing styles which spoke truth to issues affecting his island nation, that were presented with conviction and clarity, to not turn away from environmental and issues of justice that impact so many in Guam and the wider Pacific Islands region, but to educate and motivate others across the world. 

I borrowed a copy of this book from Taunton Library and listened to it on BorrowBox. I read this for prompt 46, featuring Indigenous culture, for the 52 Book Club Reading Challenge 2024. 

 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, and Colonisation

Moderate: Cancer, Death of parent, Dementia, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, and Bullying

Minor: Cursing

booknerdbetty's review

challenging dark informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief

Moderate: Miscarriage, Mental illness, Cannibalism, Physical abuse, War, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Domestic abuse, Death of parent, Terminal illness, Murder, Gore, Child death, Sexual assault, Rape, Racism, Genocide, Dementia, Suicide, and Cancer