Reviews tagging 'Car accident'

Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency by Chen Chen

3 reviews

avisreadsandreads's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Excrement, Hate crime, Racial slurs, Racism, Grief, Death, and Homophobia

Minor: Car accident

robinks's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

Another great collection by Chen! Navigating love and parents is never easy, especially as an Asian American queer person. Chen also does a lovely job of integrating difficult experiences with humor and storytelling. My favorites (in order of appearance):
- Doctor’s Note
- The School of Fury
- The School of Your Book/Letter to Jennifer S. Cheng
- Elegy While Listening to a Song I Can’t Help But Start to Move to
- One Year Later: A Letter
- Summer (p61)
- The School of Logic
- Chen No Middle Name Chen
- One Year Later: Her Answer
- I Invite My Parents to a Dinner Party
- ode to my beloveds & brevities
- The School of Eternities
- The School of Joy

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia

Moderate: Racism

Minor: Car accident and Mass/school shootings

skudiklier's review against another edition

emotional funny reflective medium-paced

5.0

God this was amazing. Chen Chen's writing never disappoints, and this collection just blew me away. I was excited to see a couple poems I already knew, especially "Winter (big smelly bowel...)"--I think of that one all the time, and loved seeing how the feeling of reading it changes in this context too.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Racism, and Death of parent

Moderate: Sexual content, Death, and Car accident