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What My Mother and I Don't Talk about: Fifteen Writers Break the Silence by

23 reviews

maddamreads's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

Brutally honest, funny, inspiring, heartbreaking, and genuine. You can’t go into the book thinking that you’ll find your own mother in the stories. Rather, the stories inspire an  exploration into your own relationship with your mother. Some of the stories were unexpected in the depth of humanizing the figures talked about. Most were brilliantly paced and written. Although almost all of the authors were middle aged/older reflecting on their younger years, the diversity of backgrounds and experiences makes the journey through the stories richer.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Suicidal thoughts, Ableism, Alcoholism, Abandonment, Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Xenophobia, and Sexual content

Minor: Body shaming, Rape, and Drug use

jennyshelby's review

emotional funny hopeful inspiring medium-paced

4.5

I was afraid that if i called her, she would talk and it would be too hard for me to love her after that.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Body shaming, Child abuse, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Rape, and Toxic relationship

maiamorgue's review against another edition

emotional reflective fast-paced

4.75

Beautiful and raw stories of love and the complexities of mothers and daughters and sons and fathers. Craven with the want to be understood and understand others.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Toxic relationship, Rape, and Injury/Injury detail

arayo's review against another edition

emotional reflective

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Rape, Child abuse, Death of parent, Pedophilia, and Ableism

Minor: Drug use, Cancer, Body shaming, and Suicide attempt

kat_c_h's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad fast-paced

3.75

TW: this book does talk a lot about childhood abuse and generational abuse. Both are pretty hard to read at times. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Sexual assault, Child abuse, and Rape

cady_sass's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

This is a heavy read. As with any anthology or collection of essays with multiple authors, some things are going to resonate and others are not. I think there is genuinely something for everyone here, whether your relationship with your mother is good or great or toxic or non-existent. A lot of tough topics are handled very eloquently and it may be tough to get through at times but it’s a worthy read. I’d recommend this to most people, I think you’ll find something that sticks with you for a long time to come. I know I did. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Rape, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Death, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Terminal illness, Cursing, Ableism, Racism, Sexual assault, Toxic friendship, Bullying, Domestic abuse, Medical trauma, Sexism, Child abuse, Drug abuse, Dysphoria, Emotional abuse, Grief, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Medical content, Physical abuse, Violence, Death of parent, Eating disorder, Misogyny, Self harm, Sexual harassment, Suicide attempt, and Suicide

sakisreads's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional slow-paced

3.5

What My Mother and I Don’t Talk About is a hard-hitting, (sometimes) harrowing set of essays written by a range of authors. I loved the ways in which it was so nuanced; even when some mothers inflicted harm, their children found ways to forgive. I read this with the knowledge that regardless of what pain people can inflict on their loved ones, the bond can still be so strong and well, relentless 😳 I found the essay by Nayomi Munaweera especially challenging 🥲 

All in all, difficult but definitely worth reading 👏🏼

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gaslighting, Rape, Body shaming, Child abuse, Bullying, Chronic illness, Death of parent, Self harm, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Adult/minor relationship, Cancer, Mental illness, and Suicide attempt

aus10england's review against another edition

fast-paced

4.75

Oh, this was profound. All the stories were engaging and poignant. I only wish they were all longer! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse

Moderate: Rape and Alcoholism

Minor: War and Death of parent

luise96's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse and Domestic abuse

Moderate: Drug abuse

Minor: Rape

lgor5's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Minor: Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, Rape, and Sexual assault