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brianlarson's review against another edition
5.0
Piercingly insightful and traumatically sad. This is the first work by Tove Iâve read (Youth & Dependency are up next!).
Tove switches narrative voice many times and uses this scheme to disorient readers while she traces the impact of intergenerational trauma on her âChildhood.â
âYou can't get out of childhood, and it clings to you like a bad smell. You notice it in other children - each childhood has its own smell. You don't recognize your own and sometimes you're afraid that it's worse than others. You're standing talking to another girl whose childhood smells of coal and ashes, and suddenly she takes a step back because she has noticed the terrible stink of your childhood. On the sly, you observe the adults whose childhood lies inside them, torn and full of holes like a used and moth-eaten rug no one thinks about anymore or has any use for. You can't tell by looking at them that they've had a childhood, and you don't dare ask how they managed to make it through without their faces getting deeply scarred and marked by it.â
Tove switches narrative voice many times and uses this scheme to disorient readers while she traces the impact of intergenerational trauma on her âChildhood.â
âYou can't get out of childhood, and it clings to you like a bad smell. You notice it in other children - each childhood has its own smell. You don't recognize your own and sometimes you're afraid that it's worse than others. You're standing talking to another girl whose childhood smells of coal and ashes, and suddenly she takes a step back because she has noticed the terrible stink of your childhood. On the sly, you observe the adults whose childhood lies inside them, torn and full of holes like a used and moth-eaten rug no one thinks about anymore or has any use for. You can't tell by looking at them that they've had a childhood, and you don't dare ask how they managed to make it through without their faces getting deeply scarred and marked by it.â
surtrutmund's review against another edition
funny
hopeful
lighthearted
reflective
relaxing
fast-paced
5.0
seligh's review against another edition
5.0
I did not expect this to be so good .
The book was way to honest .
I did not think that before , but defo will read the rest of the series soon.
The description of emotions of feelings , of the inner workings of the narrator , were so realistic and well shown . It wasn't like shoving it down the throat , to was both blunt and subtle and beautifully written .
The book was way to honest .
I did not think that before , but defo will read the rest of the series soon.
The description of emotions of feelings , of the inner workings of the narrator , were so realistic and well shown . It wasn't like shoving it down the throat , to was both blunt and subtle and beautifully written .
hedvigcallmer's review against another edition
5.0
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