A review by tenten
A Tiny Upward Shove by Melissa Chadburn

Did not finish book. Stopped at 44%.
dnf at 44%, which i know is a large chunk of the book and normally i would keep pushing through but this was too much, even for me. i normally have no issue with triggering content, i throughly enjoyed Roxane Gay's Difficult Women despite the heavy subject matter, but this ...
bad things already happened to Marina and i know there's more to come based on other reviews. the author of this novel has done reporting on the child welfare system and was featured on the Netflix doc, The Trials of Gabriel Fernandez so she's probably encountered some heavy horrible shit that might be the basis for the stuff that happens in this book. i couldn't even sit through five minutes of that documentary. this is too bleak for me, especially after just finding out about the SCOTUS draft opinion on overturning roe v wade. much too bleak. 
i feel bad DNFing this, and i might pick it back up again considering it's not due back to the library for another 10 days and i'm already nearly halfway through it but idk man. it has great reviews and it is well-written and it's a debut by a woc featuring characters from a culture that i don't know much about but ... sheesh it's heavy 
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