Reviews tagging 'Sexual assault'

Homesick by Jennifer Croft

6 reviews

katerina_l's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcohol, Suicide, Injury/Injury detail, Chronic illness, Sexual assault, Alcoholism, Suicide attempt, and Suicidal thoughts

jhartsoe's review against another edition

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Suicide, Self harm, Chronic illness, Death, Mental illness, Sexual assault, and Suicidal thoughts

jssmns's review

emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

3.25

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Content Warnings

Minor: Rape, Mass/school shootings, and Sexual assault

shantastic_reads's review

dark emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Self harm, Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, Chronic illness, Suicide, Sexual assault, Alcoholism, and Medical content

ginavulpes's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad fast-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Sexual assault

abbie_'s review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

4.5

A beautifully written, unusually structured memoir told in the third person, of the translator Jennifer Croft. I’ve read a few of Croft’s translations and she is hugely talented, so I’m glad for Charco Press’s new Untranslated series for allowing Croft to tell her own story, as opposed to translating others’. 

She explores her relationship with her chronically ill sister, the beginning of her love affair with languages and grammar, her brushes with trauma like suicide at far too young an age. The short chapters make it addictive, but there’s no less depth because of the shortness of the chapters.

Loved it!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Self harm, Chronic illness, Medical content, Suicide attempt, and Suicide

Moderate: Sexual assault and Vomit

Minor: Gun violence