Reviews tagging 'Child death'

Her Father's Daughter by Alice Pung

3 reviews

jouljet's review

dark emotional informative reflective tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Genocide, War, Body horror, and Child death

tlaynejones's review

challenging emotional funny informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

This was such an excellent memoir. It’s told in a third person pov, and the perspective alternates between the author and her father. To me this reads like a cross between raw, spare, intimate and sharp literary fiction, and the epic, gut wrenching truth of some historical fiction novels. Highly recommended. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Grief, Physical abuse, Murder, Excrement, Genocide, Medical trauma, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child death, Death, Violence, Slavery, and Classism

ntvenessa's review

challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

4.25

There were always aspects of growing up as the child of refugees that were universally understood in-group but never really spoken about. Perhaps more recently in superficial jest you might come across a joke or two (always a joke), but never with such clarity and body. This is a deeply generous and thoughtful reflection on Pung's relationship with her father. Pung writes with such finesse, such tenderness and insight as she considers such difficult subject matter as the Khmer Rouge. I am deeply moved by how she is able to convey so much complex emotion with delicate care, simplicity, and truth.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Emotional abuse, Excrement, Genocide, Gaslighting, Gore, Grief, Gun violence, Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Murder, Physical abuse, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Vomit, War, and Xenophobia

Moderate: Ableism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Child death, Chronic illness, Dementia, Kidnapping, and Mental illness