Reviews tagging 'Medical content'

A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: A Palestinian Odyssey Through Apartheid by Nathan Thrall

4 reviews

orangegirl22's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative medium-paced

5.0

a true story that reads like a novel, does a good job of showcasing the lives of palestinians and the challenges they face while also providing historical context and looking at larger structural forces of oppression 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Car accident

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Racism, Islamophobia, Medical content, and Medical trauma

hammerhead69's review against another edition

dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Misogyny, Racism, Rape, Xenophobia, Blood, Islamophobia, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Car accident, Fire/Fire injury, Colonisation, War, and Injury/Injury detail

readingwithcoffee's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative sad tense medium-paced

4.5

Cried on and off, pls take the trigger warnings seriously it’s a nonfiction book about a his full go kindergartners catching fire and ten of them dying. 

Well written and well excited to branch out from the tragedy to talk about now the apartheid contributed to the mass death event 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Domestic abuse, Mental illness, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Police brutality, Medical content, Grief, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Rape

meldasilas's review against another edition

dark sad tense medium-paced

5.0

A heartbreaking picture of living as a Palestinian in the West Bank, this book takes you on a winding journey through a man's life full of sadness, regret, and ambiguity told through the narrative of bus crash that involves a kindergarten class.

As a mom of a kindergartener, this is the most heartbreaking book I read all year, particularly because it goes through the frustratingly difficult history between Palestine and Israel and demonstrates how every small daily element of life a free person takes for granted is not offered in the West Bank.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Child abuse, Child death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Islamophobia, Medical content, Dementia, Medical trauma, Car accident, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, War, and Injury/Injury detail