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clynns's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gun violence, Infidelity, Racism, Self harm, Vomit, Grief, Car accident, Murder, Abandonment, Alcohol, Colonisation, and Classism
deetabz's review against another edition
3.75
Graphic: Racial slurs, Racism, and Grief
Moderate: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Bullying, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gun violence, Infidelity, Pedophilia, Suicidal thoughts, Medical content, Car accident, Murder, Abandonment, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism
Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Self harm, Blood, Vomit, and Pregnancy
cerilouisereads's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Death, Drug abuse, and Drug use
mnatale100's review against another edition
4.25
Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Death, Racism, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Violence, Grief, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Classism
Moderate: Addiction, Animal death, Cursing, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gore, Gun violence, Infidelity, Mental illness, Blood, and Murder
Minor: Ableism, Adult/minor relationship, Bullying, Domestic abuse, Incest, Racial slurs, Pregnancy, and Cultural appropriation
kiaragennaro's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Bullying, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gun violence, Infidelity, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Grief, Car accident, Murder, Colonisation, and Classism
laurendenton's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Addiction, Bullying, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Racism, Sexism, Suicide, Grief, Car accident, Alcohol, and Classism
Moderate: Body horror, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Sexual content, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Suicide attempt, Murder, Pregnancy, Abandonment, and Sexual harassment
Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Animal death, Child death, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, Self harm, Vomit, Kidnapping, and Fire/Fire injury
ktdakotareads's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Death
Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Bullying, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gun violence, Infidelity, Mental illness, Racial slurs, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Violence, Grief, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Murder, and Alcohol
bookdragon217's review against another edition
5.0
Men We Reaped rocked me to the core. Jesmyn Ward poured her entire heart onto these pages. I related to this book on a personal level and it validated fears I thought I had buried deep inside. Ward's writing cuts like a knife but allows for cathartic relief.
I've never thought about grief the way Ward describes it: " WE INHERIT THESE things that breed despair and self-hatred, and tragedy multiplies." It is sinister and waiting to finally catch up to us. "DEATH SPREADS, EATING away at the root or our community like a fungus". Because of the generational traumas and circumstances that are passed down in marginalized communities death is always lurking and waiting to destroy what we love the most.
Ward ultimately explores:
🖤 how we define and create community and family
🖤 how grief is carried across generations
🖤 why we are always to drawn to home despite tragedy
🖤 how communities heal and practice resiliency
🖤 the daily anxieties and fears of marginalized communities
🖤 how communities cope with grief
🖤 the effects of unresolved mental health issues in families of color
🖤 gender differences in communities
🖤 what it means to be BIPOC and poor in the South
🖤 the strength of Black women
🖤 what survival looks like as a Black person
What sticks with me the most is the idea that grief is the validation that someone's life mattered. Grief is what is left behind to remind us of how much our loved ones meant to us even if the world says otherwise. Grief never fully goes away because it is what keeps us connected to those that left us too soon. This book was powerful, heartbreaking and beautiful at the same time.
Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Death, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, and Car accident
the_literarylinguist's review against another edition
4.25
Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Racial slurs, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Vomit, and Car accident