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betag1013's review
5.0
Graphic: Alcoholism, Body shaming, Bullying, Cancer, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Genocide, Gun violence, Hate crime, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Xenophobia, Vomit, Grief, Medical trauma, Murder, Cultural appropriation, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Colonisation, Dysphoria, War, and Classism
kobayashi's review
3.0
Graphic: Child death, Death, Rape, Vomit, and War
plainplantains's review
4.75
Graphic: Alcoholism, Death, Genocide, Racism, Sexual violence, Violence, Xenophobia, Police brutality, Colonisation, and War
Moderate: Antisemitism
kathshiroma's review
4.75
Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Death, Genocide, Hate crime, Grief, Alcohol, and War
Moderate: Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicide, and Sexual harassment
Minor: Racial slurs, Self harm, and Murder
spookyzeeko's review
3.75
Although the story seemed interesting since the beginning, the writing style made it hard to get caught up. There’s a lot of repetition in the sentence structure, I guess meant for a dramatic or serious tone, that were just really annoying to me at first.
Secondly, some passages were hard to empathise with. In an attempt to be honest about her ignorance, the author portrays how spoiled and privileged she actually was, recalling how poorly she viewed her family and herself.
On the other hand, some passages were very emotional and the book had me teary-eyed several times. The family stories are beautiful and intricate. The portraits are sincere and authentic. I really enjoyed the more informative passages about the story of Okinawa, the war, the people that I found super interesting and quite well written (although again, the repetition of structures were a big turn-off to me).
The ending made me very emotional but in a good, hopeful way. I do not regret reading this book at all and I think of marking the chapters that were the most interesting and informative to me, that I’d like to go back to.
Minor: Alcoholism, Cursing, Death, Drug use, Racial slurs, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Antisemitism, Death of parent, Alcohol, and Colonisation