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A review by hmatt
Home Body by Rupi Kaur
challenging
dark
emotional
hopeful
1.0
Oh boy, this was not good. My curiosity got the better of me, though, and the audiobook is an hour long.
Most of these "poems" were cringeworthy, to me. Very few read as poems, at least via audio - they feel more like bits of memoir and I think I would have been more interested if some of them had been fleshed out as essays instead of needlessly stylized (e.g. the one about her dad as a truck driver). Many of the more political/social-justicey ones just read like out-of-context buzzwordy instagram captions strung together, and I really was not compelled to believe their genuineness.
Most of these "poems" were cringeworthy, to me. Very few read as poems, at least via audio - they feel more like bits of memoir and I think I would have been more interested if some of them had been fleshed out as essays instead of needlessly stylized (e.g. the one about her dad as a truck driver). Many of the more political/social-justicey ones just read like out-of-context buzzwordy instagram captions strung together, and I really was not compelled to believe their genuineness.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Child abuse, Islamophobia, Pedophilia, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexual content, Adult/minor relationship, Xenophobia, Sexual assault, and Sexual harassment
Moderate: Mental illness