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safpearl's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
Graphic: Body shaming, Incest, Fatphobia, Eating disorder, and Emotional abuse
mushmoll's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
"Was it possible I could be my own daughter?..I wondered if the universe, in its roundness, somehow already contained my daughterness. Perhaps I'd been being held there, a daughter all along, until I woke up to it."
Graphic: Eating disorder, Outing, Toxic relationship, Fatphobia, Homophobia, Dysphoria, Body shaming, Gaslighting, Biphobia, Emotional abuse, and Religious bigotry
kickitupanotch7's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.75
Graphic: Sexual content, Fatphobia, Eating disorder, and Body shaming
Moderate: Toxic relationship, Biphobia, and Suicidal thoughts
4m0r's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
It was good, the 1st third anyway. In the second Broder Lost me, I feel like this is for a very specific audience and me not being part of the Jewish community didn't understand a single thing they said and the author didn't bother explaining it.
I wish the book had less of a Miriam-love base and explored more Rachel's mindset. The ED is barely talked about if not for mentioning she's afraid of being fat and how terrible her mother was (we learn about this all in the 1/3, later we have glimpses of it but is almost completely forgotten). Also her relationship with Miriam was weird, too surface leveled if you asked me.
I would have liked to see more the transition of Rachel after Miriam, because Broder gave us nothing. I feel like it's not what it promised to be, but still was good because it managed to make laugh.
Graphic: Fatphobia, Lesbophobia, Mental illness, Antisemitism, Body shaming, Eating disorder, and Emotional abuse
Moderate: Dysphoria, Religious bigotry, and Sexual content
isa_99's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Eating disorder and Sexual content
Moderate: Body shaming and Lesbophobia
Minor: Toxic relationship and Mental illness
perksofbeingemily's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Eating disorder, Body shaming, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, and Mental illness
Moderate: War, Lesbophobia, and Biphobia
jane_want_some's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
Graphic: Eating disorder and Body shaming
fabbeylous104's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Body shaming, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Sexual content, Dysphoria, and Emotional abuse
Moderate: Homophobia
greenthunder13's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.25
Graphic: Eating disorder and Sexual content
Moderate: Body shaming
Minor: Homophobia
ribbenkast's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
3.75
Instead we just got an overely honest internal dialogue. The weirdness comes from the main character Rachel having a severe eating disorder, mommy issues and some slightly more uncomen kinks but nothing as wild as I was let to expect. She's slowly coming to terms with the fact that not everyone lives the way she does. All of this sone through in a scene where she unhingedly eats a sundae early in the book. Which admittedly was incredibly funny.
The promised weirdness reaches its peak very early on and kind off flat lines after. This makes the book drag a bit in the middle.
The ending makes up for it though, every piece of the book comes together perfectly. I found the ending very worthwhile.
This book is also very much about being Jewish and what it means to be and to be raised (American) Jewish. I myself am not Jewish and i suspect that I lack a bit of cultural context to fully take in that part of the book.
Graphic: Outing, Lesbophobia, Homophobia, Body shaming, Eating disorder, Religious bigotry, Fatphobia, and Xenophobia
There zionists views being expressed by some of the characters. Whilst the text is leaning on anti-zionism I can imagine a character voicing those ideas can be pretty triggering.