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sophieherr's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Panic attacks/disorders, Medical trauma, Misogyny, and Homophobia
henriettaenam's review against another edition
Graphic: Homophobia, Abandonment, Medical trauma, Self harm, and Suicidal thoughts
Moderate: Toxic relationship, Bullying, and Body shaming
sofipitch's review against another edition
4.75
Graphic: Death, Suicide attempt, Injury/Injury detail, and Suicidal thoughts
Moderate: Infertility, Homophobia, and Transphobia
souplover2001's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Suicide attempt
Moderate: Transphobia, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, and Homophobia
laurareads87's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Mental illness, Suicide attempt, Self harm, Medical content, Medical trauma, Suicidal thoughts, and Transphobia
Moderate: Racism, Blood, Violence, Sexual violence, Homophobia, Cannibalism, Injury/Injury detail, and Body horror
savvylit's review against another edition
4.5
Furthermore, beyond the powerful subject matter of Dear Senthuran, this memoir is absolutely brimming with unforgettable sentences. My own words can't do their words justice. Thus, here are a few quotes from Dear Senthuran:
"If just this terrified you - the tip of a feather - how am I supposed to open up entire wings?"
"What is love if not a shield thrown up around you when you are too injured to throw it up yourself?"
"People can do such spectacular things if you forget to tell them it's impossible. I want them to try."
"Part of bending the world we want into existence is that we get to choose who we want to be in it with, and I choose you."
Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Medical content, Self harm, and Toxic relationship
Moderate: Sexual assault, Homophobia, and Transphobia
readingthroughinfinity's review against another edition
4.75
Graphic: Medical trauma, Mental illness, Blood, Body horror, and Medical content
Moderate: Child abuse, Drug use, Gaslighting, Suicide attempt, Toxic relationship, Dysphoria, Chronic illness, Emotional abuse, Drug abuse, Self harm, and Suicidal thoughts
Minor: Ableism, Addiction, Homophobia, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, and Infidelity
solenodon's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Death, and Grief
Moderate: Dysphoria, Medical content, Medical trauma, Homophobia, and Infidelity
Minor: Sexual content
laurenleigh's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Suicide, Gore, Blood, Sexual content, and Death
Moderate: Violence, Medical content, Homophobia, and Transphobia
Minor: Panic attacks/disorders and Fire/Fire injury
foreverinastory's review against another edition
5.0
I've had the pleasure of reading both Freshwater and The Death of Vivek Oji so I knew I would be inhaling Emezi's memoir as soon as I could. Dear Senthuran has solidified Emezi as one of my favorite authors of all time. Any time they come out with something new, I will be reading it immediately.
This memoir is not an easy book to read. Emezi has chronic depression and has lived through several suicide attempts. Reading about their struggles and how being an author on tour only exacerbated their depression is something readers and fans almost never see. We see the shiny, polished author who puts their best face forward during the extent of the tour where as many cities as possible are crammed in.
So much of this book is about pain. But it's also about becoming who you are. The thing I related to the most was Emezi's struggles with gender and defining exactly what their gender was. Plus dealing with dysphoria and taking steps to treat it. They also discuss how this impacted their relationship with their mother.
This book took a knife to my soul and it felt like someone finally understood the thoughts in my head I haven't been able to verbalize. Read this book as soon as you can.
CWs: Death, emotional abuse, homophobia, medical content (gender affirming surgeries), misogyny, racism, religious bigotry, sexism, self harm, sexual content, suicidal thoughts, suicide attempts, toxic relationship, transphobia, body horror, mental illness (depression).
Graphic: Body horror, Death, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Medical content, Mental illness, Misogyny, Racism, Religious bigotry, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Toxic relationship, and Transphobia