Reviews tagging 'Grief'

A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them by Timothy Egan

6 reviews

fkshg8465's review against another edition

dark emotional informative inspiring medium-paced

5.0

Justice was done! Sadly, it often isn’t. A man who takes will keep on taking until there’s nothing left to take. She hasn’t stopped him, he would’ve continued his savagery. But mostly, felt good that a woman won.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting, Xenophobia, Suicide attempt, Fire/Fire injury, Sexual harassment, Racism, Sexual assault, Torture, Alcohol, Grief, Medical content, Misogyny, Murder, Physical abuse, Rape, Abandonment, Antisemitism, Bullying, Body horror, Domestic abuse, Hate crime, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Sexual violence, Death, Emotional abuse, Self harm, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Blood, and Violence

vireogirl's review

challenging dark emotional informative sad tense medium-paced

4.0

Such a sad time in America’s history. I learned lots I wasn’t aware of. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Grief, Gun violence, Blood, Sexual harassment, Sexism, Murder, Racial slurs, Death, Rape, Sexual assault, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual violence, Sexual content, Alcohol, Classism, Gore, Medical trauma, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Racism, Suicide, Hate crime, Kidnapping, Violence, Stalking, and Suicidal thoughts

jojo50's review

challenging dark informative tense fast-paced

4.5

Interesting assessment of the rise of the KKK in Indiana Ohio and Pennsylvania in the 1920s. Extremely terrifying parallels to the world today

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Death, Emotional abuse, Religious bigotry, Sexual harassment, Antisemitism, Blood, Gaslighting, Violence, Confinement, Bullying, Gore, Grief, Hate crime, Medical trauma, Misogyny, Gun violence, Infidelity, Kidnapping, Murder, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Sexual violence, Torture, Stalking, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Cannibalism

magsbord's review

challenging dark informative fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Slavery, Domestic abuse, Kidnapping, Sexual harassment, Stalking, Death, Gaslighting, Hate crime, Murder, Racial slurs, Racism, Alcoholism, Classism, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Religious bigotry, Trafficking, Xenophobia, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Alcohol, Antisemitism, Colonisation, Medical trauma, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexism, Sexual violence, and Violence

Moderate: Bullying, Infidelity, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, Slavery, Ableism, Addiction, Car accident, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Medical trauma, Self harm, Adult/minor relationship, Confinement, and Drug use

alexijai98's review

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

“The Grand Dragon was a symptom, not a cause, of an age that has been mischaracterized as one of Gatsby frivolity and the mayhem of modernism.”

This is probably my favorite nonfiction read of 2023. I’ve read quite a few books and articles on the Klan, and as a black woman and history educator I know the importance of teaching the reality of the KKK’s reach. The Klan did not invent white supremacy, they honed it into political action, as Egan so deftly explains.

This work is valuable on so many levels, one of which is Egan’s determination to not relegate the Klan to the geographic bounds of the South. The Klan was nationwide, as was and is white supremacy. You can see the extent of its clutches throughout A Fever in the Heartland. Egan’s work is a reminder that progress has been made, but work is still to be done.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt, Suicide, Blood, Death, Domestic abuse, Grief, Religious bigotry, Gaslighting, Hate crime, Kidnapping, Misogyny, Police brutality, Racial slurs, Torture, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Antisemitism, Murder, Racism, Rape, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, and Xenophobia

mondovertigo's review

dark informative reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Hate crime, Death, Blood, Police brutality, Infidelity, Domestic abuse, Ableism, Grief, Murder, Kidnapping, Injury/Injury detail, Suicide attempt, Sexual assault, Racial slurs, Religious bigotry, Xenophobia, Alcoholism, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Racism, and Violence

Minor: Pedophilia, Fire/Fire injury, Vomit, and Homophobia