The design and UX isn't done, Rob and Abbie, okkurrrr! 😌
woahpip's review against another edition
5.0
Moderate: Child abuse, Sexual violence, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, and Gun violence
moniipeters's review
4.0
Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Domestic abuse, Kidnapping, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Violence, Blood, Pregnancy, Rape, Child abuse, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Gun violence, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, and Emotional abuse
clarabooksit's review against another edition
4.25
Graphic: Death, Grief, Violence, Gun violence, Death of parent, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Physical abuse, Murder, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, and Racism
Moderate: Child abuse and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Suicide
mondovertigo's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Gun violence, Domestic abuse, Violence, Death of parent, Murder, Physical abuse, Emotional abuse, Racism, and Grief
Moderate: Child abuse
readingwithcats's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Domestic abuse, Death of parent, Murder, and Child abuse
nrogers_1030's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Stalking, Murder, Gun violence, Emotional abuse, Death of parent, and Toxic relationship
Moderate: Child abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Bullying, Domestic abuse, and Injury/Injury detail
noshelf_control's review against another edition
4.75
Graphic: Child abuse, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Murder, Stalking, Toxic relationship, and Violence
amandaatkinson06's review against another edition
4.25
Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Grief, Gun violence, and Murder
Moderate: Blood, Bullying, Racism, Violence, and Gaslighting
Minor: Pregnancy
foreverinastory's review against another edition
5.0
Memorial Drive is a memoir about Natasha's mother and how she was murdered by her stepfather. This book alternates from past and present POVs as Natasha recounts her first 18 years of life culminating in her mother's death. This book was emotional and hard to read. I wanted to go back in time to stop the pain that Natasha's family felt (minus the stepdad he deserves nothing).
This short book illustrates a complicated relationship between mother and daughter and several of the instances that put them on that path. But we always see how much her mother cared for her and her younger brother.
One of the most evocative parts of this memoir was that the Tretheway family had evidence that their stepfather was going to kill either the children or Natasha's mother. There are at least two if not more damning phone calls that were recorded yet the police did nothing. I don't know if it was misogyny or racism or misogynoir but I am just so devastated by this family's loss because it was so preventable had the police actually listened. Just another reason to defund and renovate the system.
Rep: Black/biracial author, Black mother, father in law with suicidal ideation and possible other mental illnesses.
CWs: Murder, Grief, death of parent, gaslighting, death, fatal shooting/gun violence, emotional and physical abuse, racism, child abuse, domestic abuse, alcohol consumption/alcoholism, toxic relationship.Â
Graphic: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Murder, Violence, Death, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Grief, Gun violence, and Toxic relationship
Moderate: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Child abuse, and Racism
reaga_lking's review
5.0
Natasha Tretheway tells us from the start what happens in this attempt to "make sense of [her] history, to understand the tragic course upon which [her] mother's life was set and the way [her] own life has been shaped by that legacy." Her mother died at the hands of her stepfather.Â
What she doesn't tell us is the journey she takes us on to get there: from exploring her childhood against the backdrop of the Civil Rights Movement, to traveling with her mother to a new city and a new family, to describing life with an abusive stepfather through the second-person narrative of an author still dissociating from the memory, to moving through the heartbreaking evidence of what was to come, until finally reaching the precipice of a story that you already know the ending of, yet somehow feel less prepared to face now than you did when you first started reading.
Tragic, honest, and written with loving grace, never once does this book apologize for the story it is telling. Tretheway never softens the manipulations of her stepfather nor does she offer mercy to the police force that so utterly failed her family.
Moderate: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, and Murder