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morebedsidebooks's review against another edition
slow-paced
2.0
Every time G. had been drinking too much, his wife shunned him and the sickening smell of drink and tobacco he gave off. She would go and sleep with her children at the other end of the platform. G. lay on his back with bleary eyes and kept calling out, “N., come here — I’m waiting!” “Leave me alone!” she retorted in a sharp, shrill voice. The next hour witnessed an endless series of appeals followed invariably by refusals. Finally, in his absolute determination for sexual relief, G. would step across his sleepless children to get at his wife. She had her own strange method of putting up greater resistance, which involved hugging one of her sons — always the same eight-year-old boy — tight against herself. Protecting his mother by holding her close in his arms, the howling, weeping child would fight off his drunken father with tremendous kicks in the face which sometimes made his father’s nose bleed. Soon the man would fall back out of breath, but he quickly returned to the attack amid shrieks and tears from all the children. This unbelievable scene would drag on sometimes till morning, with momentary pauses and savage resumptions. The little boy in question had once announced that some day he would kill his father, because he was making life a torture for his mother.
Yet Kpomassie, a grown man present, gives no indication, unless being a witness is all of it, of his own course of action faced with such a situation.
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Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal death and Blood
Moderate: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Domestic abuse, Racial slurs, Sexual assault, and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Child death, Death, Racism, Excrement, Murder, Pregnancy, and Colonisation
Other content includes poverty, polygamy, and proselytization. Various treatment towards animals and food preparation, including of animals is described in graphic detail.seanamcphie's review against another edition
adventurous
challenging
informative
reflective
medium-paced
5.0
Content Warnings
Minor: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Racial slurs, Suicide, Blood, Excrement, Alcohol, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail
williamgideon's review against another edition
adventurous
funny
informative
inspiring
fast-paced
4.5
I loved this book. It was such and adventure, through several cultures drastically different from my own. I admire the author for his determination, the way he found a goal and stuck with it, no matter how hard it got. The only minor flaw in this book is the pacing. But it was lovely seeing all the connections he made with the Greenlanders, which is why I'm so happy to hear Tété-Michel Kpomassie is moving back to Greenland.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Alcoholism and Alcohol
Minor: Child death
katiewhocanread's review against another edition
adventurous
challenging
slow-paced
Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal death and Blood
Moderate: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Child death, Racial slurs, Racism, Violence, Xenophobia, Excrement, and Alcohol
Minor: Child abuse, Incest, and Slavery
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