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Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Bullying, Cancer, Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Genocide, Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Racism, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Violence, Excrement, Medical content, Grief, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Abandonment, Alcohol, War, Injury/Injury detail, Classism
Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Gun violence, Rape, Sexism, Slavery, Toxic relationship, Excrement, Police brutality, Medical content, Car accident, Toxic friendship
Graphic: Addiction, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexual content, War
Moderate: Alcoholism, Cancer, Gun violence, Hate crime, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, Classism
Graphic: Addiction, Animal cruelty, Child abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Blood, Grief, Abortion, Colonisation
Moderate: Body shaming, Bullying, Hate crime, Homophobia, Miscarriage, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Death of parent, Sexual harassment
His author-read audiobook performance of this powerful book was nothing short of magnificent.
A queer Vietnamese American man writes a letter to his mother, a survivor of the Vietnam War, who cannot read. His love for her, and hers for him, is ferocious and beautiful beyond words. Vuong is a poet, but strangely, I find his novel more compelling than his poetry. Tons of content warnings, to the degree I don't know when I will ever feel mentally resilient enough in my own C-PTSD to re-read it in its entirety, but if you're in the mood for a good cry, I can't think of anything more cathartic.
Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Bullying, Cancer, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Terminal illness, Torture, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Xenophobia, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Police brutality, Medical content, Dementia, Grief, Cannibalism, Medical trauma, Car accident, Abortion, Death of parent, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail, Classism, Deportation
Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Confinement, Fatphobia, Mass/school shootings, Religious bigotry, Murder, War
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Mental illness, Schizophrenia/Psychosis
Moderate: Addiction, Child abuse, Homophobia, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexual content, Death of parent, Alcohol
Minor: Alcoholism, Bullying, Cancer, Hate crime, War
Graphic: Racism, Sexual content, Violence, Grief, Abortion, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , War
Moderate: Addiction, Bullying, Cancer, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Infertility, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Blood, Dementia, Car accident, Pregnancy, Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Alcoholism, Child abuse, Cursing, Mental illness, Racial slurs, Excrement, Mass/school shootings, Colonisation, Classism
CW for drugs and overdose deaths, which I wish I would have known going in, but reading it was actually very healing for me.
Moderate: Addiction, Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Hate crime, Homophobia, Mental illness, Sexual content, Death of parent, Schizophrenia/Psychosis
Graphic: Addiction, Animal cruelty, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Sexual assault, War
Moderate: Alcoholism, Cancer, Child abuse, Death, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Homophobia, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Sexual violence, Terminal illness, Grief, Medical trauma, Car accident, Death of parent, Schizophrenia/Psychosis
Graphic: Domestic abuse, Sexual content, War
Moderate: Addiction, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Bullying, Cancer, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Drug use, Hate crime, Physical abuse, Racism, Violence, Excrement, Medical content, Car accident, War
Minor: Cursing, Transphobia
All this time I told myself we were born from war—but I was wrong, Ma. We were born from beauty.
Let no one mistake us for the fruit of violence—but that violence, having passed throught the fruit, failed to spoil it.
I don't think I have the words right now to explain how much I loved this book. But I just want to thank my bestie for recommending me this to me. :)
Graphic: Addiction, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Hate crime, Racism, Terminal illness, Grief, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , War