Reviews tagging 'Child death'

The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson

6 reviews

jeggert10's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racism, Violence, Classism, Drug abuse, and Murder

Minor: Medical content, Addiction, Drug use, Cancer, Abandonment, Hate crime, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Police brutality, Sexual assault, Child death, Death of parent, Grief, Gun violence, Car accident, Pregnancy, Slavery, and Death

alicianoel126's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

3.5

Great book on a topic barely covered. Long and tedious read at times. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Hate crime, Child death, Death of parent, Death, Slavery, Racism, and Grief

Minor: Racial slurs

wlreed312's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative slow-paced

5.0

 This was absolutely fantastic. The narratives of the three protagonists were heartbreaking, awe inspiring, sometimes lovely and sometimes frustrating. They were all so deeply human. The history is fascinating. The writing is lovely and engaging. Wilkerson is a wonder. I don't often buy nonfiction books because I try to save my purchases for books I know I'll reread, but I think I'll make an exception for this. Truly wonderful, as is Caste.
 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Hate crime, Murder, Racism, Slavery, and Violence

Moderate: Child death, Drug use, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Death of parent and Forced institutionalization

laurenleigh's review against another edition

challenging informative slow-paced

4.0

I really appreciate how much work went into this nonfiction work about the Great Migration. Wilkerson REALLY did her homework. She has meticulously researched the subject, and I value her wide range of source material. The core of her research is in first-person accounts, but she supplements this beautifully with census data, advertiments from the era, newspaper articles, sociology studies, poetry, and novels. The information was skillfully woven together. But I found the overall reading experience challenging. The first part goes into some really intense details about the horrors Black Americans faced in the Jim Crow South. It felt important to fully understand why it could be dangerous, even life-threatening to stay in the South, but there was some pretty graphic violence. I also felt a little thrown off by the timing, as her three first-person accounts migrated in three different decades. 1930 vs. 1955 were very different times, and I felt my brain had to juggle this, as she bounced around from story to story. I do feel like I learned some valuable things, but the process to do so was difficult at times.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Racism, Torture, Police brutality, Murder, and Hate crime

Moderate: Pregnancy, Medical content, Cancer, Death, and Child death

Minor: Car accident

clarabooksit's review

emotional informative inspiring slow-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Racial slurs, Death, Murder, Violence, Police brutality, Hate crime, and Child death

Moderate: Medical content and Infidelity

caseythereader's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective slow-paced

4.75

 📚 This is one of the most engaging nonfiction books I've ever read. Wilkerson's narrative style draws you in immediately.
📚 It's such an incredible account of ordinary people doing something extraordinary. So much of the history we learn is about the exceptional people, and Wilkerson reminds us that history is also written by everyday people.
📚 I never learned about this period of history in school - we never made it much beyond the turn of the century in my classes. We often think of historical events as discrete periods of time, but THE WARMTH OF OTHER SUNS deftly shows how interconnected everything is. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Cancer, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Grief, Gun violence, Hate crime, Infidelity, Medical content, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Terminal illness, Torture, and Violence