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The Woo-Woo: How I Survived Ice Hockey, Drug Raids, Demons, and My Crazy Chinese Family by Lindsay Wong
3 reviews
iftheshoef1tz's review
challenging
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
4.0
While I don’t think I would have liked Lindsay as a person growing up, I feel such deep empathy for her past self, and clearly she really pities her younger, deeply emotionally stunted childhood self. The complicated love she feels for her mother, despite her mother’s frequent inability to be maternal, was so poignant, and I think that is true for many people and their emotionally abusive parents. The way mental illness was described in this book was upsetting and definitely didn’t pull any punches. I felt particularly terrible for Poh-Poh: off her anti-psychotics, she was hallucinating and unable to function, but from the description of her on medication doesn’t feel much more hopeful. I hope Lindsay is doing and feeling better - her comments throughout the book make it pretty obvious she’s had some therapy and is learning to recover/work around all that trauma.
Graphic: Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis
zee's review
challenging
dark
medium-paced
3.5
Dark, and bitingly witty, Wong regales us with her horrifically abusive experience growing up in a disturbingly undiagnosed mentally unwell family. It is a truly chaotic experience that almost feels like fiction except that it's too caustic and surreal to be made up. The good news is, Wong survives and manages to gain a solid understanding of how wild and unhealthy her experiences were. However as a book it's very heavy, flippant, and tough to read with the cruel humour.
Graphic: Body shaming and Emotional abuse
Moderate: Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, Suicide attempt, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis
kingsamong's review against another edition
challenging
dark
sad
tense
medium-paced
2.25
Graphic: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Self harm, Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis
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