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A review by apple287
My Brother's Name is Jessica by John Boyne
emotional
funny
informative
reflective
sad
tense
fast-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
4.5
Chapter 2 - WOW! Mum and Dad are completely in denial and their vocabulary and language just explodes from here. It's kind of like a car crash - you know you shouldn't look or watch but you can't help it.
For me, this book validates all of my thoughts and ideologies about the way I have already and want to in the future parent my child. To always be available, have open and honest conversations, guide him to discover things for himself and to truely be want he wants to be. Most of all, I want him to know that he is loved absolutely unconditionally.
Gender discrimination surrounding women, mothers, ideologies on parenting (approx. page 224 in my edition of the print book):
"Even those newspapers who were supportive of my brother Jason still found small ways to blame Mum, as if her being ambitious and having a career somehow meant that she should be held responsible." (...for the 'issues' experienced by her first-born child).
"The strange thing was that it didn't matter who wrote the column - a man or a woman - the line was always the same. That Mum was at fault and Dad was a weakling because he was Mum's private secretary. That if she'd stayed at home all these years and made a few shepherd's pies, then everything would have turned out differently."
Let's spearhead this stigma and allow women to live out their ambitious careers.
For me, this book validates all of my thoughts and ideologies about the way I have already and want to in the future parent my child. To always be available, have open and honest conversations, guide him to discover things for himself and to truely be want he wants to be. Most of all, I want him to know that he is loved absolutely unconditionally.
Gender discrimination surrounding women, mothers, ideologies on parenting (approx. page 224 in my edition of the print book):
"Even those newspapers who were supportive of my brother Jason still found small ways to blame Mum, as if her being ambitious and having a career somehow meant that she should be held responsible." (...for the 'issues' experienced by her first-born child).
"The strange thing was that it didn't matter who wrote the column - a man or a woman - the line was always the same. That Mum was at fault and Dad was a weakling because he was Mum's private secretary. That if she'd stayed at home all these years and made a few shepherd's pies, then everything would have turned out differently."
Let's spearhead this stigma and allow women to live out their ambitious careers.