Reviews tagging 'Grief'

Highway of Tears: A True Story of Racism, Indifference and the Pursuit of Justice for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls by Jessica McDiarmid

23 reviews

windraven18's review

challenging dark emotional informative tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Genocide, Mental illness, Racism, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Police brutality, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Alcohol, and Colonisation

stephhborges's review

dark hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Genocide, Mental illness, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racism, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicide, Violence, Grief, Death of parent, Colonisation, and Classism

tcsellman's review

dark emotional informative sad slow-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Grief, and Colonisation

Moderate: Death, Genocide, and Murder

Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, Rape, and Sexual assault

whatannikareads's review

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense slow-paced

4.75

such an important book that humanizes these victims rather than letting them fall victim to forgotten history. i was tearing up at some points because my heart hurt at how these indigenous GIRLS--yes mostly teenage girls--were treated before and after their murders/disappearances. how shameful that this continues to be something that these families are fighting to get recognized, and that indigenous women are still going missing at higher rates than average. mcdiarmid reports both sides of the story, from the families as well as law enforcement. as a journalist, she sticks to her duty and highlights all aspects of the story (that can be tracked down). i only vaguely knew about this genocide beforehand, and so i'm glad i picked this up and am able to put names to faces--not just know their tragedies, but also their personalities and how much they meant to the people around them.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Child death, Death, Drug use, Genocide, Hate crime, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Xenophobia, Kidnapping, Grief, Car accident, Death of parent, Murder, Abandonment, Alcohol, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail

emmehooks's review

challenging emotional informative medium-paced

4.5

I struggled to keep up with all of the names and places at times, but the author did a wonderful job highlighting the humanity of missing women and girls, the neglect and discrimination by police, and the inclusion of photos and maps was helpful.  Well written prose was easy to read and engaging 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Gun violence, Violence, Kidnapping, Grief, and Murder

Moderate: Rape, Toxic relationship, Xenophobia, Trafficking, and Abandonment

katiescott's review

dark emotional informative sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Hate crime, Racism, and Murder

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Drug use, and Grief

ladykatka's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

Heartbreaking and worthy read
The journey of Truth and Reconciliation must include books like this, the ones that tell the sad and hard stories that nobody wants to think about for too long. that talk about the systematic racism that occurred and still occurs. That brings to light the goodness and real people that the victims were and the families are. Until everyone fully understands what happened in the past but is also happening right now the journey to Reconciliation is going to be much harder.

I avoided this book for a long time because I wanted to opt for books written by Indigenous authors but this was very respectfully done and well researched. I had known about the missing and murdered women and girls as well as the highway of tears but this provided so much more information including details about the women, girls, and their families. it is moving and tragic and leaves with a desire to do something. 

Definitely recommend this book just as an eye opening read that gives you a small look into a huge problem. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Child death, Cursing, Death, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Kidnapping, Grief, and Alcohol

sarah984's review against another edition

challenging emotional medium-paced

3.0

I think that this is absolutely an important topic that needs to be spoken about more in Canada and British Columbia (especially since the government is still only kind of implementing the proposed changes piecemeal) but I was expecting more from this book. I found the organization of it a bit confusing since it jumps back and forth in time a lot, and I was expecting a stronger stance taken in the book itself based on the title. The actual book is more of a list of facts than an essay making a statement, and some questionable statements about the RCMP (that one officer saying he doesn't see colour was particularly egregious) are just stated with no clarification or authorial opinion attached.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Police brutality, and Death of parent

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Death, Racism, Rape, Medical content, Trafficking, Grief, Murder, and Colonisation

Minor: Racial slurs, Suicide, Forced institutionalization, Religious bigotry, and Car accident

pipn_t's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Racism, Grief, and Murder

Moderate: Alcoholism and Violence

Minor: Addiction and Sexual assault

haylethal's review

challenging dark informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gun violence, Hate crime, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, Police brutality, Grief, Murder, Abandonment, Alcohol, Colonisation, and Classism