Reviews tagging 'Genocide'

Slow Noodles: A Cambodian Memoir of Love, Loss, and Family Recipes by Chantha Nguon

12 reviews

pufiferfish's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Genocide, Death of parent, and War

Minor: Alcoholism, Child death, Domestic abuse, Infidelity, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Police brutality, Kidnapping, Colonisation, and Deportation

rosie_valadez's review against another edition

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, and War

Moderate: Genocide, Suicidal thoughts, and Trafficking

Minor: Domestic abuse and Drug use

amyjo25's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Violence, and War

Moderate: Grief and Death of parent

jes312's review

challenging dark hopeful reflective sad slow-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide

kitwhelan's review

challenging emotional informative inspiring sad tense medium-paced

5.0

Beautiful and surprisingly hopeful! I learned so much about what happened in Cambodia and SE Asia at that time. And this book will make you hungry! I was googling Cambodian restaurants near me by the third chapter. The book is full of recipes to make the author's cooking accessible, too.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Genocide and War

Minor: Domestic abuse and Abandonment

piecesofamber's review against another edition

challenging inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief

Moderate: Chronic illness, Death, Physical abuse, Sexism, Terminal illness, Torture, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Medical content, Death of parent, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Animal death, Cancer, Child death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Genocide, Rape, Sexual assault, Excrement, Alcohol, Deportation, and Pandemic/Epidemic

readingpicnic's review against another edition

5.0

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher Algonquin Books for a free digital ARC (or I guess a late reader copy since I requested this and was approved after it was already published) in exchange for an honest review. The recipes were tied into the story so well before they were reintroduced in recipe format, and it was such a wonderful enmeshing of genres that felt so natural. The ways that the recipes were altered in creative ways, such as with instructions to noisily prepare food to make the eater feel unwelcome eating it–so creative. The food descriptions were incredible and so meticulous, and you can tell the author’s passion for the food knowledge that she wrote this to preserve, keeping both her mother and culture’s recipes alive. The mission of this book and the execution were fairly flawless in my opinion, and even though readers should check the trigger warnings due to the traumas of the Cambodian genocide and living in communist North Vietnam with extremely rationed food, living in extreme poverty, as well as losing so many family members to illness, it is still definitely worth the read. The family dynamics were very interesting to read about, especially in the ways some of her siblings just stopped interacting with them after moving away from Cambodia and the normalcy of that (could just be my western perspective). I am truly not very educated on Cambodia’s history, so even though I learned some of that history from this book, this really emphasized for me how much more I have to learn (I think I’ll read Ma and Me by Putsata Reang soon). I think that ending the book with an epilogue from her daughter was a great way to round out the story and really emphasized the generations of women that are so prevalent in this story. The relationships between Chantha and her mom, her sister (who also took on a mothering role), and then between her and her daughter were the true through line of this book, and it just all came together so nicely and in such a lovely way. Anyways, 5 stars, and I’m glad I took my time reading this slowly.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Child death, Confinement, Death, Genocide, Mental illness, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Death of parent, Murder, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Misogyny, Sexual violence, Trafficking, and Sexual harassment

jordynkw's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Genocide, Sexual assault, Violence, Xenophobia, Grief, Death of parent, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

kirstym25's review against another edition

emotional sad medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Terminal illness, and Violence

Moderate: Genocide, Suicidal thoughts, and War

Minor: Domestic abuse and Drug abuse

nad_books623's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

This was a beautiful and incredibly sad story. The book was raw and as an American it was good reading her story while, living during the Vietnam war. 

This was the first time I've read a book that focused on food which, I believe made the book 5 stars. The way everything was connected was beautiful. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Death, Genocide, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Xenophobia, Medical content, Grief, Death of parent, Sexual harassment, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Trafficking, and Abandonment

Minor: Alcoholism, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Racial slurs, and Pandemic/Epidemic