Reviews tagging 'Death of parent'

Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt

2 reviews

mandi4886's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative reflective sad slow-paced

3.5

Great writing and very detailed descriptions of life in poverty. I did find the ending to be a bit odd and lacking closure. I also found some of the details within this book to be unnecessary. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Blood, Body shaming, Bullying, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Emotional abuse, Excrement, Gaslighting, Grief, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Medical trauma, Physical abuse, Religious bigotry, Sexism, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Violence, Vomit, and Xenophobia

Moderate: Abandonment, Ableism, Animal cruelty, Mental illness, and War

Minor: Antisemitism, Confinement, Forced institutionalization, Genocide, Gore, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic friendship, and Infertility

minimarie's review

challenging dark emotional funny inspiring lighthearted sad medium-paced

4.75

Frank McCourt use of tragic humor in this book is brilliant, I’ve never in my life thought a book could make me want to cry, laugh, and be so angry. This book is truly makes you feel so many emotions while reading it. I wasn’t a big fan of biographies before read this book, this book made me love reading biographies that tell the struggles of many people up bring with a lighthearted twist to it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Grief

Minor: Bullying and Incest

child death from illness; this spoken about a lot in this book as he had multiple siblings pass in their adolescent years. Child abuse; it’s more neglect, as they treat him differently from the rest of his siblings. Incest; in the book it mentions that his mother is being sexual assaulted (?) by his uncle. Grief; there is different type of way each person in the book griefs especially depending on which person passes on.