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The Ugly Cry by Danielle Henderson

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fanchera's review

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challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.25


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dark emotional funny reflective medium-paced

3.5


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smalika's review

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emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0


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atiek's review

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5.0

God, I loved this memoir. 

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bookphile's review

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dark emotional funny reflective sad medium-paced
TW: physical abuse, sexual abuse/molestation of a minor, child abuse, child abandonment, heavy drug use, depression, suicide 

CW: smoking, child neglect, mental illness, swearing 

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Enjoyed this story overall. It was interesting and well written. 

However, I feel like the author - possibility deliberately - never really went into too much detail about a single topic, so even after reading a whole book about her childhood and teenage years I feel like I don't know much about her. I understand in part it's because she probably doesn't want to talk too much about certain topics. She'll sort of mention those things of hand and then move on to a completely different and light hearted topic.  She does mention that her mother's boyfriend used to beat her and molested her frequently, but she doesn't talk about it afterwards. She does this a lot, she drops information about something terrible that happened and then not really talk about, at least not directly. For example, she does talk later on about severely depressed and suicidal as a teenager, which you can guess happens because of all the compounded trauma that she never got to deal with or even discuss with anyone. 

Also, this is not me saying she should have gone into detail discussing these things. Nor did I wish for her to go into graphic detail. It's just sometimes I felt frustrated at how she would state that something terrible happened without much preamble and then not discuss anything that happened afterwards. 

I also wished that she would let us know what happened with her mother. Did she just stay with that asshole and raise two kids with him, or more? Did she ever know what he did to her daughter? She knew about the physical abuse, but I have to wonder if she knew he was sexually abusing her daughter to and if she had the gall to do nothing about it. I know I don't really deserve answers to these questions and Henderson doesn't have to give anyone answers. It's just something that I would have wanted more exploration on. 

Overall, it was a great memoir. Heartbreaking, but also funny in a way, providing a window into her life, while still maintaining some privacy by telling us only what she wished to share and nothing more. 

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