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Forager: Field Notes for Surviving a Family Cult by Michelle Dowd
6 reviews
apairofducks's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Child abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Religious bigotry, Suicide attempt, and Abandonment
Minor: Animal death and Cancer
abijmieds's review
Graphic: Chronic illness, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Self harm, Violence, Religious bigotry, and Suicide attempt
Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Body shaming, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Death, Domestic abuse, Mental illness, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, Stalking, Car accident, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Fire/Fire injury, and Abandonment
Minor: Animal death
harperphillips96's review against another edition
2.75
Graphic: Child abuse, Chronic illness, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Sexism, Sexual assault, and Abandonment
Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Confinement, Forced institutionalization, Medical content, Fire/Fire injury, and Gaslighting
erica_reads01's review
2.5
Unfortunately, this book didn’t deliver. I don’t want to take anything away from the author and her real life experiences because I’m sure it was difficult and traumatic. But I don’t feel that the experience comes across authentically or in a way that dives deeper into what happened and why and how it affected her in present day. She narrates the audiobook which felt unnatural to me. Her cadence and delivery felt upbeat and energetic and didn’t match the words she was speaking. I think it may have been more impactful if narrated by someone else or if I had read the book myself instead of listening.
I understand her desire to protect the privacy of her family, but I think some more context as to how and why this cult formed would have been helpful to the story. I found it difficult to follow the timeline since everything was told in present tense and she jumped around a bit so it wasn’t told chronologically. I wish there had been more emotional story telling rather than surface level information. The field notes read like a scientific journal. Her explanation of how her mother taught her skills that helped her to escape is an interesting way to look at it, but could’ve been further explained. She was being taught things that seem counterintuitive and contradictory to what she was being forced to endure. I enjoyed hearing her interpretations of the Bible and how being raised to know how to survive in any situation was how she realized she could survive outside of that life and be better off. Of course she’s an author now and said she has a family of her own, and she was able to communicate with her mother later in life as her mom was dying. I would have liked more of her thoughts now sprinkled in as she reflected on what happened to her as a child. Rather than just listing things that happened to her and not saying much more. She said in an interview that her life after she left and how she learned to acclimate to the wider world could be a whole book on its own. I think this book would’ve been more effective if she had brought some of that into it.
Graphic: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Pedophilia, and Rape
chaoticenby's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Child abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Sexual assault, Religious bigotry, and Suicide attempt
Moderate: Pedophilia, Rape, and Medical trauma
babyfacedoldsoul's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Bullying, Child abuse, Confinement, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Incest, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Forced institutionalization, Medical content, Religious bigotry, and Abandonment
Minor: Cancer