Reviews tagging 'Police brutality'

Still Life with Bones by Alexa Hagerty

14 reviews

errie's review against another edition

challenging informative

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mass/school shootings, Physical abuse, Racism, Child death, Genocide, Death, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Torture, Confinement, Violence, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Gore, Grief, Kidnapping, Murder, Police brutality, Trafficking, and War

ngilbert's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Police brutality, Child death, Death, Death of parent, and Genocide

vigil's review

dark emotional informative reflective sad tense

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Grief, Genocide, Death, Violence, Blood, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Pregnancy, Torture, Police brutality, Gun violence, and Child death

betsythegremlin's review

challenging dark informative sad medium-paced

5.0

Heartbreaking read but very important. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Gun violence, Violence, Hate crime, Death, Mass/school shootings, War, Torture, Child death, Police brutality, Murder, Gore, Xenophobia, and Kidnapping

pickledbeez's review against another edition

challenging reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Genocide, Violence, Torture, Sexual violence, Police brutality, Gun violence, and Death

hgustlin's review

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Murder, Police brutality, Kidnapping, Child death, and Violence

caidyn's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

This is a book to read slowly. I wanted to read it chunks at a time. I had no idea about most of this. What a thought provoking read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Police brutality, Torture, Genocide, Confinement, and Violence

bookbrig's review

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

I learned so much from this book, and it made me want to go back to reread The Bone Woman by Clea Koff. I only knew the very vaguest details about the history this book recounts, so I'm also hoping to read some of the books mentioned in the text for more context and info. This is a moving mixture of memoir and history and testimony and witness to atrocities that feels particularly timely, though I suppose it is unfortunately timely at any given moment. It's not a light read, but it is a really well written one.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Grief, Death, Child death, Medical trauma, Mass/school shootings, Death of parent, and Murder

Moderate: Gaslighting, Kidnapping, Police brutality, Torture, Confinement, Violence, and Panic attacks/disorders

mslaureeslibrary's review

dark informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Pregnancy, Panic attacks/disorders, Kidnapping, Murder, Hate crime, Gun violence, Grief, Sexual violence, Religious bigotry, Child death, Child abuse, Racism, Genocide, Sexual assault, Torture, Slavery, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Forced institutionalization, Death, Confinement, Classism, and Antisemitism

librarymouse's review

challenging emotional informative sad medium-paced

4.5

Prior to reading this book, I had no idea that the American-backed genocide of Mayans in Guatemala, nor the Nazi-affiliated disappearings in Argentina ever happened. In this book, Alexa Hagerty does a beautiful and poignant job exploring the atrocities and her experience exhuming the mass graves left in their wake at a human level. She breaks down the walls built up in many western minds between the body and the person they were; the stories they still have left to tell, exploring how that mental block helps and hinders in archeological and anthropological study. The respect and interest Hagerty pays to working to understand things unknown to and outside the boundaries of consideration of much of western study, like that of Maya cosmovision, shows there dedication to both her work and the people she has come to care for - both living and dead.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Suicide, Torture, Forced institutionalization, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Colonisation, Death, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Child death, Death of parent, Murder, Police brutality, Religious bigotry, Sexual assault, Violence, and War