Reviews tagging 'Xenophobia'

All the Young Men by Ruth Coker Burks

2 reviews

sapphic_alpaca's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Cancer, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Homophobia, Misogyny, Sexism, Sexual assault, Terminal illness, Violence, Medical content, Dementia, Grief, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail, Classism, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Child death, Confinement, Infidelity, Racism, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Xenophobia, Blood, Death of parent, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, and Alcohol

Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, Bullying, Drug use, Vomit, and Stalking

helloits_jen's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

This was a pick for my book club and I’m so glad it was as I never would have picked it up otherwise! As someone who was born in the late 90s, the AIDS epidemic is something that is so foreign to me that I struggle to picture what it was actually like to live through. My heart broke over and over again for these men and it’s scary to think how recent this was happening. More than anything, that’s what I took away from the book - an eye opening story of what it was actually like. I really liked the way it was written - it seemed more fast paced than some non-fiction books - and I’m glad I took this opportunity to read about Ruth’s work and how heartbreakingly sad the lives of men were at that time. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Death, Hate crime, Homophobia, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Terminal illness, Transphobia, Xenophobia, Excrement, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, Outing, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic