Reviews tagging 'Suicidal thoughts'

Life in the City of Dirty Water: A Memoir of Healing by Clayton Thomas-Muller

2 reviews

christie_esau's review against another edition

challenging sad medium-paced

3.5

The first third of this book can feel like trauma dumping and thus merits a lot of trigger warnings; the narrative isn't exactly cohesive and tends to switch times/focus fairly frequently.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Mental illness, Drug use, Death, Colonisation, Suicidal thoughts, Racism, Racial slurs, Infidelity, Grief, Child abuse, Alcohol, Sexual violence, and Physical abuse

ka_ke's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

This is a must read for anyone who calls themself an Ally of the First Nations, Métis & Inuit peoples.  Clayton paints a brutal picture of what life is like as an Indigenous male trying to survive a colonialist society. It is oddly inspiring. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Alcohol, Bullying, Child abuse, Colonisation, Cultural appropriation, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Grief, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Violence, and Cursing

Moderate: Abandonment and Confinement