Reviews tagging 'Suicide'

Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond

5 reviews

esjackson's review against another edition

dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Addiction, Drug use, Mental illness, Drug abuse, and Classism

Moderate: Toxic friendship, Bullying, Domestic abuse, Trafficking, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Gun violence, Self harm, Grief, Animal death, Cursing, Incest, Murder, and Suicide

hellavaral's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racism, Addiction, Drug abuse, and Domestic abuse

Minor: Fire/Fire injury, Rape, Sexual assault, Child death, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Animal death, Gun violence, Mental illness, and Racial slurs

daveketter's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative sad fast-paced

5.0

Desmond’s work is a solid, revealing, and heartbreaking encounter with poverty at its most fundamental impact—our homes. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs

Moderate: Gun violence, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, Alcoholism, Sexual violence, Mental illness, Child death, Domestic abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Emotional abuse, Drug abuse, and Addiction

Minor: Abandonment and Suicide

evalion231's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective fast-paced

5.0

Harrowing, heartbreaking, and overwhelming. i have little experience with poverty in America, and this book was eye opening and revolting and just sad. I felt disgusted and horrified. 

This book put faces and stories to my eviction data work in a way that is missing in our report tbh.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Death, Abandonment, Addiction, Alcoholism, and Vomit

Moderate: Suicide

Minor: Animal death

katsudonburi's review against another edition

challenging informative sad slow-paced

5.0

A brutal and incredibly upsetting look at poverty and the damage eviction does to people and their families; what keeps it from reading as trauma porn is the author's deep commitment to the humanity of his subjects and constant examination of the systems that have not so much failed them as been designed to exploit them. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Police brutality, Racism, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide

Minor: Animal death, Forced institutionalization, Panic attacks/disorders, and Rape