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saskiahill's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail, Racism, Domestic abuse, Gun violence, Toxic relationship, Violence, Slavery, and Physical abuse
Moderate: Alcoholism, Pregnancy, Blood, Drug use, Rape, Emotional abuse, Alcohol, Abandonment, Suicidal thoughts, and Sexism
Minor: Murder
noahsingh's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Domestic abuse, Sexism, Alcoholism, Injury/Injury detail, Racism, Misogyny, Child abuse, Physical abuse, Emotional abuse, Colonisation, and Gun violence
Moderate: Medical trauma, Bullying, Stalking, Police brutality, Animal cruelty, Car accident, Addiction, Animal death, Medical content, Confinement, Classism, Rape, and Kidnapping
Minor: Slavery and Suicidal thoughts
theotterside's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Blood and Gun violence
Moderate: Child abuse, Classism, Domestic abuse, Police brutality, Slavery, Colonisation, Physical abuse, Racism, Racial slurs, and Violence
amjone12's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Racism
Moderate: Domestic abuse, Alcoholism, Colonisation, and Gun violence
peachythi_books's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Violence, Domestic abuse, and Gun violence
Moderate: Classism, Colonisation, Suicidal thoughts, Hate crime, Racial slurs, Racism, Xenophobia, Abandonment, Cultural appropriation, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Sexism, Addiction, Alcoholism, and Child abuse
Minor: Animal death and Sexism
filipa_maia's review against another edition
4.5
I really enjoyed this book. Is so effortlessly written, almost like a conversation. The story goes back and forth with such grace and detail that the reader feels like its actually a one-on-one talk with Trevor.
Trevor as a very unique way of describing whats around him. Its a very funny, but serious way of telling us what was like to born and live being someone who does not belong. But this book is so much more that just a story about Trevor's life. Is all about a time period that changed an entire country and its people forever. Its very interesting the way this book describes such dark times through the eyes of a child and, later, with the proper interpretation of an adult. More than 30 years after the end of apartheid people still live surrounded by its "ghost"... its not there anymore but its presence is still felt.
Everyone, no matter what your race is, your age, where you are from, should read this book. We all should learn what happened during (and after) apartheid, because when we forget the past we are bound to repeat the same mistakes.
P.S.: I believe there is a quote very similar to this by a philosopher, but this is a saying that I really like.
Graphic: Cultural appropriation, Emotional abuse, Colonisation, Police brutality, Grief, Child abuse, Racism, Physical abuse, Sexism, Racial slurs, Gaslighting, Toxic relationship, Misogyny, Hate crime, Gun violence, Classism, Violence, Genocide, Domestic abuse, and Toxic friendship
Moderate: Alcohol, Animal cruelty, Bullying, Blood, Car accident, Pregnancy, and Alcoholism
Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Abandonment, Excrement, Medical content, Fire/Fire injury, Medical trauma, and Injury/Injury detail
_0_'s review against another edition
4.75
Minor: Racism, Death of parent, Colonisation, Violence, Toxic relationship, Murder, Antisemitism, and War
madisonfrank's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Racial slurs, Classism, Physical abuse, Racism, Animal cruelty, Blood, Violence, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Colonisation, Cursing, Gun violence, and Bullying
cnnr876's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Alcohol, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Blood, Child abuse, Colonisation, Fire/Fire injury, Racism, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, and Misogyny
Moderate: Violence
mokey81's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Colonisation, Racism, and Domestic abuse