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Creep: Accusations and Confessions by Myriam Gurba

3 reviews

plantonic_friendships's review against another edition

challenging dark informative sad tense medium-paced

4.75

I think many of the other reviewers gave a stronger review than I ever could. This was a strong essay collection though the nonlinearity really confused me at points. A good example was in the essay Creep and where Q came into play in her life. It was discombobulating and I kept rewinding the audio thinking I missed something - turns out you don't get it into much further into the essay.

I think so many women have had a Q in their life. Some who have had a man try to play off suffocating them to some who have had a man pretend to be the avid reader of your dream (Lolita is such a red flag 😭) only to be your biggest hater and everything in between.

The "White Onion" chapter was so interesting and Joan Didion's relation to one of the Manson murderer was sooo interesting.

Quite honestly, ALL of the content warnings.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Lesbophobia, Police brutality, Sexism, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Domestic abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Gaslighting, Homophobia, Violence, Racism, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual harassment, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Forced institutionalization, Misogyny, and Murder

kklecornu's review against another edition

dark informative tense medium-paced

4.5

This was a masterpiece of a memoir. The author seamlessly wove cultural critique and historical fact with personal narrative. Gurba's analysis of the interplay between trauma and humor was a completely fresh perspective, and the way she threaded that duality through multiple essays hammered at the nuance of her point. The last essay may be the most horrifically accurate description of domestic abuse I've ever read. Gurba's writing is confessional without being extravagant, and this work instantly puts her in the top tier of memoirists of our generation. Move over Joan Didion, California has a new literary queen. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Rape, Xenophobia, Sexism, Sexual assault, Violence, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Colonisation, Toxic relationship, Classism, Sexual assault, Sexism, and Stalking

Minor: Child death and Police brutality

caseythereader's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative medium-paced

4.25

Thanks to Avid Reader Press for the free copy of this book.

 - CREEP is a collection of essays that are part memoir, part historical exploration, all righteous rage.
- Gurba is a master at channeling her experiences into sentences that cut right to the heart of the problem and of the reader.
- This book is a tough read. But if you're up for it, it's a truly excellent excoriation of the many overlapping systems that make space for predators to thrive. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Deportation, Murder, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Emotional abuse, Grief, Animal death, Cursing, Addiction, Antisemitism, Bullying, Domestic abuse, Gaslighting, Gun violence, Homophobia, Death, Death of parent, Classism, Colonisation, Confinement, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Blood, Child abuse, and Violence