Reviews tagging 'Child death'

Somebody's Daughter: A Memoir by Ashley C. Ford

14 reviews

discarded_dust_jacket's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective slow-paced

4.0

Wow. Just… wow. It feels weird to “review” someone’s account of their life. This is a deeply gut-wrenching and emotional read, but it’s also full of hope and tenderness and reconciliation. 

Ford’s experiences speak powerfully about being a young woman, growing into a body you’re made to feel is wrong or dirty simply for how others react to it; about the disassociation from and turbulent relationship with that body after sexual assault; about desperately seeking the love and approval of an absent parent; and about so many other things—family, forgiveness, identity. This is such a compelling story in so many ways.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Stalking, Rape, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Child death, Panic attacks/disorders, Toxic relationship, and Pedophilia

dr_aimz's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful reflective sad tense medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual harassment

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Sexual assault, and Rape

Minor: Child death and Panic attacks/disorders

marigold_faye's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Gaslighting, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Emotional abuse, and Religious bigotry

Moderate: Misogyny, Sexual harassment, Violence, Rape, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Body shaming, and Child death

Minor: Terminal illness, Death, Cancer, Eating disorder, Fire/Fire injury, Pedophilia, Panic attacks/disorders, Blood, and Grief

sarahmae531's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective tense medium-paced

4.75

A beautiful memoir that had me laughing and crying through out it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Death, Child abuse, Sexual assault, and Rape

Moderate: Child death, Pregnancy, Pedophilia, Racism, Cancer, and Miscarriage

twilightfan420's review against another edition

dark funny inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

5-star memoir alert! I enjoyed every page of this so much I risked getting horribly carsick to finish reading it on a road trip. The relationship with the author’s mother was so complex and expertly-detailed. I think Ford examined the multiplicity of what it means to be family in an enlightening way; the concept of unconditional love shone through the entire narrative and manifested very different through Ford’s individual relationships. I think Ford writes sexual trauma in an extremely conscious yet evocative way. I could feel her pain through  the writing but I could also feel her strength. As a survivor myself, I felt seen and empowered at the same time as Ford reckoned with her own experiences and the narrative she’d been told about her father throughout the work. Also, the way it the story was told starting and ending at the same point was so beautifully done. It felt wrapped up but still realistic in a way that many narrative nonfiction cannot capture.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Miscarriage, Rape, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Terminal illness, Adult/minor relationship, and Violence

Minor: Animal death

navayiota's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

This was really powerful. I'm really glad I read it even if it was really hard at times. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Rape, Toxic relationship, Abandonment, Child death, Child abuse, Death, Sexual assault, Miscarriage, Pedophilia, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Medical content, Pregnancy, and Racism

Minor: Alcohol and Incest

lcg527's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape and Child abuse

Moderate: Child death

meghan's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Pedophilia, Cancer, Panic attacks/disorders, and Miscarriage

Moderate: Stalking, Grief, Death of parent, Death, Confinement, and Child death

delz's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

Ashley C. Ford has put on paper a very personal at times, heart wrenching account of her volatile family. *trigger warnings for a single (1 page) rape(not described graphically) and domestic violence.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Mental illness, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, and Child death

Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body shaming, Cancer, Forced institutionalization, Injury/Injury detail, Racism, and Pedophilia

massivepizzacrust's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

Even though a lot of the details of Ford's life are completely different to mine, I connected to this memoir to the point of crying. I wish everyone would read this, especially if you've struggled with your family before. There is a lot more covered in this memoir than family relationships but I went into it without knowing much more and I recommend you do the same. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body shaming, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Grief, Physical abuse, Rape, Racism, Sexual assault, and Stalking

Minor: Child death, Cursing, and Panic attacks/disorders