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youngblackademic98's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Rape, Child abuse, Physical abuse, Emotional abuse, and Toxic relationship
Moderate: Death
Minor: Mental illness
sgriffinn's review against another edition
3.5
Graphic: Rape, Domestic abuse, and Sexual assault
Moderate: Mental illness
donnique's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Rape, Sexual violence, Terminal illness, and Toxic relationship
Moderate: Animal cruelty, Body shaming, Cancer, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Grief, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, and Racism
rorikae's review against another edition
4.5
Ford chronicles her youth through her young adulthood through her relationship with her mother and her father, who was incarcerated during her childhood. Though the story is framed through Ford's relationship with her father and how she came to terms with the crime for which he was imprisoned, it is almost more about her relationship with her own mother and how it has changed through her life. We follow her through school, young loves, going away to school, and growing up through the lens of herself as somebody's daughter.
I have been a fan of Ashley C. Ford's for quite some time. I can't remember the first time I encountered her work but I've listened to her podcasts and interviews with her before so I was excited to delve into her memoir. I thoroughly enjoyed learning more about her life and I think she does a great job of pairing honesty with evocative prose to create an emotionally moving memoir. She reads the audiobook, which I highly recommend, because she has a great voice. An audiobook memoir is that much more personal when the author reads it themself. I also recommend the audiobook because it has an hour long conversation between Ford and Clint Smith about their books, which acts as an epilogue of sorts as we learn more about the writing of the memoir.
I cannot wait to read what Ford writes next. 'Somebody's Daughter' solidified that she is an author whose work I will be following for years to come.
Graphic: Rape, Toxic relationship, Grief, Death of parent, Mental illness, and Sexual assault
Moderate: Body shaming
dionnesims's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Emotional abuse, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Domestic abuse, and Mental illness
paigeno's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Emotional abuse and Toxic relationship
Moderate: Child abuse, Mental illness, Rape, Sexual violence, Abandonment, Medical content, Sexual assault, and Sexual content
maggies's review
4.0
Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, and Sexual assault
Moderate: Child abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, and Mental illness
Minor: Death and Medical content
ladymirtazapine's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Cancer, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Mental illness, Rape, and Stalking
Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Panic attacks/disorders
katielaine_w's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Grief, Miscarriage, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Toxic relationship
Moderate: Dysphoria, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, and Racism
Minor: Alcohol, Body shaming, Cancer, Car accident, Death, Infidelity, Medical content, and Terminal illness
veronicats's review against another edition
5.0
I don't read a lot of memoirs or non fiction in general these days, but I am SO glad I read this. I smiled a lot, I cried, I was thinking about passages and phrases and quotes from it for hours afterwards.
I think this is hit so close because she talks about her relationships with her parents. The emotionally absent mother and physically absent father are figures I know only too well. She said so many things I've thought but could never articulate.
I recommend this to everyone. It is so, so good. So powerful. I know I'll be coming back to things I read in this book a LOT.
Graphic: Animal death, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Miscarriage, Rape, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence
Moderate: Death, Cancer, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Medical content, and Mental illness
Minor: Incest, Panic attacks/disorders, and Stalking