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anielabooks's review
4.25
Graphic: Cancer, Death, Death of parent, Terminal illness, and Grief
Moderate: Racism, Car accident, and Xenophobia
Minor: Alcohol, Violence, Drug use, Abortion, Excrement, Physical abuse, and Pregnancy
toffishay's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Death, Grief, and Death of parent
Moderate: Alcohol, Medical content, Excrement, Emotional abuse, Medical trauma, and Vomit
Minor: Dysphoria, Addiction, Suicidal thoughts, Physical abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Car accident, Violence, Xenophobia, Abortion, and Mental illness
iamninjabuni's review against another edition
1.0
Graphic: Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Child abuse, and Emotional abuse
rmfickfack's review against another edition
3.0
Graphic: Cancer, Terminal illness, Death, Death of parent, Medical content, Physical abuse, and Violence
nataliedc's review against another edition
4.25
Moderate: Physical abuse
emilysbookishlife's review
3.75
Graphic: Physical abuse and Grief
Minor: Suicidal thoughts
ejanephillips's review against another edition
4.75
Graphic: Cancer, Grief, Infidelity, Medical content, Car accident, Cursing, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Vomit, Abortion, Alcohol, and Death of parent
kaneekakapur's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Cancer, Death of parent, and Death
Minor: Racism and Physical abuse
idun_aurora's review against another edition
4.0
Moderate: Death of parent, Vomit, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Car accident, Abortion, Alcohol, Grief, Body shaming, and Cancer
rieviolet's review against another edition
5.0
I loved the way food was a focal point throughout the narration, how its connection with one's cultural heritage was so strongly and beautifully illustrated. It really prompted me to reflect on the food I've grown up with and its significance for my own selfhood.
The linguist in me also really appreciated the lovely reflections on language and on a mother tongue.
The writing style was just *chef's kiss*. There were so many passages that I kept re-reading thinking to myself "How could she manage to capture this feeling with such poignant words and turn of phrases?", I was just floored.
My mother had struggled to understand me just as I struggled to understand her. Thrown as we were on opposite sides of a fault line - generational, cultural, linguistic - we wandered lost without a reference point, each of us unintelligible to the other's expectations, until these past few years when we had just begun to unlock the mystery, carve the psychic space to accommodate each other, appreciate the differences between us, linger in our refracted commonalities. Then, what would have been the most fruitful years of understanding were cut violently short, and I was left alone to decipher the secrets of inheritance without its key.
Graphic: Cancer, Death of parent, Medical content, Grief, and Suicidal thoughts
Moderate: Violence, Alcoholism, Car accident, Racism, Child abuse, Death, Physical abuse, Infidelity, Mental illness, Excrement, Animal death, Emotional abuse, Alcohol, and Vomit
Minor: Injury/Injury detail, Drug use, Addiction, Abortion, and Rape