Reviews tagging 'Death of parent'

We Are Too Many: A Memoir [Kind of] by Hannah Pittard

6 reviews

cgm42's review

emotional fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Eating disorder

Minor: Infidelity and Death of parent

vaykay's review

challenging hopeful reflective fast-paced

3.5

Received this book in a giveaway.

I liked it; I don't know if I needed to read it. It felt comforting in some ways because I have felt similarly in very different situations, but my heart also hurt for Pittard and the years she spent with a shitty best friend and a shitty husband. Maybe she was shitty to them too; I guess she tries to raise awareness to that in the book... but I am not fully convinced that her supposed shitty-ness somehow balances the scales with their shitty-ness. At least I found Pittard's concluding remarks inspiring; sometimes I struggle to recognize that time is a construct and you can find happiness and worth even when you spent n years doing something or a submerged in a situation that you regretted or hated or felt was totally wasted or wasteful. A book like this from Pittard was one of those happy reminders that there's no such thing as wasted life, even when the time spent is sad to look upon.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Body horror, Cancer, Chronic illness, Death, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Mental illness, Self harm, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Grief, Stalking, Death of parent, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, and Dysphoria

Moderate: Drug abuse, Drug use, Medical content, and Pregnancy

christinelangill's review

emotional reflective medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Infidelity, Vomit, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Misogyny

Minor: Animal death, Terminal illness, Grief, Death of parent, and Alcohol

zarazuck's review

emotional lighthearted reflective sad medium-paced

3.75

This was good. I kept changing my mind about how I felt about the “characters” - were they all terrible? Dumb? Conniving? Pitiable? It took me a while to realize it didn’t really matter - this is her life (sort of), and nobody is the fully good or fully bad (I mean… Trish and Patrick are PRETTY bad…). The imagined conversations could bother a lot of folks, I suppose, but I’m not one of them. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Death of parent, and Alcohol

breanneporter's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

4.5

I really liked this. It took me a minute to get used to the dialogue style via audio and I didn’t find the narrator particularly likable (particularly in the flashbacks from the mid-to-late aughts/her late twenties) but I really liked the vignette format and fragmented timeline and interspersing of speculated scenarios with so many detailed memories. It’s a very short read and I was able to finish in just one day, but I was surprised at how much it hooked me and how much longer I could have waded through Hannah’s remembrances of her failed marriage and best friend betrayal. Highly recommend for those who love semi-experimental memoirs focused on complex relationship dynamics. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder

Moderate: Death of parent

moonlette's review

fast-paced

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Infidelity, and Alcohol

Moderate: Vomit

Minor: Animal death and Death of parent