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Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir by Akwaeke Emezi
18 reviews
readingthroughinfinity's review against another edition
4.75
Graphic: Medical trauma, Mental illness, Blood, Body horror, and Medical content
Moderate: Child abuse, Drug use, Gaslighting, Suicide attempt, Toxic relationship, Dysphoria, Chronic illness, Emotional abuse, Drug abuse, Self harm, and Suicidal thoughts
Minor: Ableism, Addiction, Homophobia, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, and Infidelity
hogsandwich's review
4.5
Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Medical content, Cannibalism, Medical trauma, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Body horror, Chronic illness, Death, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual assault, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Emotional abuse, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Self harm, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, and Transphobia
Moderate: Self harm
dre721's review
5.0
Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Transphobia, Toxic relationship, Sexual assault, Self harm, Panic attacks/disorders, Emotional abuse, and Dysphoria
ceallaighsbooks's review
5.0
“I know many people survive, but I also think people glorify resilience a little too much, forgetting that the fragile ones simply die as the world walks on over their bones. There are some things we shouldn’t be boasting about.
“I remember how it felt, and I know it was true. Maybe not in this life or this dimension, but it was true, and I miss it so much.”
“Alone, there’s just me, and I see myself clearly.”
- Freshwater, and everything else by Akwaeke Emezi
- The Icarus Girl, and everything else by Helen Oyeyemi
- The Bone People, and Te Kaihau The Windeater, by Keri Hulme
- Zami, by Audre Lorde
- The Night Before the Day, by Ailo Gaup
- The Dangers of Smoking in Bed, by Mariana Enríquez
- The Haunting of Hill House, by Shirley Jackson
- The Nesting, by C. J. Cooke
Graphic: Suicidal thoughts and Suicide attempt
Moderate: Gore
Minor: Rape, Toxic relationship, and Emotional abuse
foreverinastory's review
5.0
I've had the pleasure of reading both Freshwater and The Death of Vivek Oji so I knew I would be inhaling Emezi's memoir as soon as I could. Dear Senthuran has solidified Emezi as one of my favorite authors of all time. Any time they come out with something new, I will be reading it immediately.
This memoir is not an easy book to read. Emezi has chronic depression and has lived through several suicide attempts. Reading about their struggles and how being an author on tour only exacerbated their depression is something readers and fans almost never see. We see the shiny, polished author who puts their best face forward during the extent of the tour where as many cities as possible are crammed in.
So much of this book is about pain. But it's also about becoming who you are. The thing I related to the most was Emezi's struggles with gender and defining exactly what their gender was. Plus dealing with dysphoria and taking steps to treat it. They also discuss how this impacted their relationship with their mother.
This book took a knife to my soul and it felt like someone finally understood the thoughts in my head I haven't been able to verbalize. Read this book as soon as you can.
CWs: Death, emotional abuse, homophobia, medical content (gender affirming surgeries), misogyny, racism, religious bigotry, sexism, self harm, sexual content, suicidal thoughts, suicide attempts, toxic relationship, transphobia, body horror, mental illness (depression).
Graphic: Body horror, Death, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Medical content, Mental illness, Misogyny, Racism, Religious bigotry, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Toxic relationship, and Transphobia
tinytrashqueen's review
4.5
Graphic: Sexual content, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, Self harm, Panic attacks/disorders, Mental illness, Medical trauma, Medical content, Infidelity, Emotional abuse, Death, Chronic illness, Body horror, Blood, and Animal cruelty
Moderate: Ableism, Abandonment, Alcoholism, Bullying, Car accident, Drug use, Misogyny, Outing, Sexism, Transphobia, and Violence
tenten's review
5.0
Graphic: Chronic illness
Moderate: Suicide attempt, Toxic relationship, and Medical trauma
sjanke2's review
Graphic: Blood, Chronic illness, Death, Emotional abuse, Grief, Homophobia, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Toxic relationship