Reviews tagging 'Death of parent'

The Postcard by Anne Berest

16 reviews

szmay's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Deportation, Forced institutionalization, Genocide, Antisemitism, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Religious bigotry, Kidnapping, Hate crime, Police brutality, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Racial slurs, Trafficking, and Xenophobia

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Torture, Trafficking, Xenophobia, Medical content, Physical abuse, Violence, Hate crime, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Murder, Police brutality, Religious bigotry, and War

Minor: Rape, Religious bigotry, Excrement, Physical abuse, Medical content, Police brutality, Mental illness, Pregnancy, Racism, Sexual assault, and Murder

lcg527's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Antisemitism, War, Genocide, Deportation, Death of parent, Drug use, and Death

Moderate: Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Rape, and Suicide

estam1's review against another edition

emotional inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Antisemitism, Child death, Death, Deportation, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Genocide, and Confinement

amandas_bookshelf's review against another edition

dark emotional informative reflective sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Deportation, Hate crime, Drug abuse, Grief, Antisemitism, Classism, Murder, Child death, Colonisation, Death, Dementia, Drug use, Physical abuse, Confinement, Bullying, Genocide, Abandonment, Addiction, Death of parent, Xenophobia, Police brutality, Pregnancy, Rape, Religious bigotry, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, and War

romie_chat's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

this is objectively one of the books I had the hardest time reading. I never find it easy to read about the Holocaust and its aftermath, and knowing that this is a sort of novelised memoir did not help. knowing the people in this book are real makes everything ten times more painful. I saw a lot of my own family history in these pages, in the way my own grandparents simply did not talk about what happened because it was too much, in the way this war impacted their relationship with Judaism.

I think it's a book that will start conversations among Jewish families like mine, families who lost too much and decided that speaking about these events was too much. not speaking about it created a void in me and that made me relate all the more to the author's need to know more and to research what happened to her family.

this is a beautiful memoir that discusses what happened to Jewish people during the Holocaust, specifically French Jewish people, the aftermath of the war in France, and what it means to be Jewish but not religious today (4.57)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death of parent, Genocide, War, Death, and Torture

clairestream's review against another edition

adventurous dark informative sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism and Antisemitism

Moderate: Death of parent