Reviews tagging 'Eating disorder'

Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon

87 reviews

msbedelia's review

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Child abuse, and Eating disorder

mattyvreads's review against another edition

dark emotional inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

This is, without a doubt, my favorite book that I have read this year. I devoured it. Immensely captivating, unwaveringly poignant. An actual masterpiece.

It is a courageous exploration of Layson’s personal navigation through addiction, discrimination, physical and emotional abuse, eating disorders, mental health, grief — all underscored and interwoven with the racial and gendered perspective of his lived experience. 

The book is incredibly accessible, offering not just a baseline understanding of issues on racism and feminism, but through personal stories, working the reader up to examples of intersectional discrimination, examples of misogynior, and examples of a complex relationship with the human body. He offers critique of the elitism and inherent racism of major universities.

But, somehow, the book is not “preachy” whatsoever. (And even if it was, I’d still be here for the ride.) It’s tender, it’s emotional, it’s personal in a way that says: “this is my experience. This was my friend’s experience. This was my mom’s experience.” It’s incontestably honest and indefatigably moving. 

I can’t stop thinking about this book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Eating disorder, Homophobia, Child abuse, Addiction, Alcoholism, Fatphobia, and Racism

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Hate crime, and Rape

Minor: Misogyny

rachelschloneger's review

challenging emotional reflective relaxing medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder and Racism

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Drug use, and Drug abuse

kshertz's review

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

It’s really difficult to write a story like this. This is America and this is his life. I was really emotional throughout this entire book because it was incredibly touching and difficult to see what he had gone through. It was also incredibly important to see that he is representative of a larger group of people. He is a truly gifted writer too and I found myself crying a few times which has not happened in a book in a while.  This book definitely lives up to the hype and everyone should read it.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Dysphoria, Misogyny, Racism, Sexism, Eating disorder, Toxic relationship, Abandonment, Drug abuse, Body horror, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Addiction, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Drug use, and Fatphobia

sferrari925's review

dark reflective sad fast-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Eating disorder, Sexual assault, and Racism

bootsmom3's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Body shaming, Classism, Cursing, Racism, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Fatphobia, Sexual violence, Violence, Police brutality, Racial slurs, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Gun violence, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Infidelity, and Medical content

Minor: Dementia

michelle_my_belle's review against another edition

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Eating disorder, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Incest, Addiction, Emotional abuse, Child abuse, Pedophilia, Racism, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, and Sexual content

sharifas's review

challenging emotional reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racism, Eating disorder, Suicidal thoughts, and Child abuse

karmapen's review

challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Eating disorder, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Panic attacks/disorders, Vomit, Toxic relationship, Gun violence, Racism, Addiction, and Domestic abuse

savyelizabeth's review

challenging emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Eating disorder, Child abuse, and Racism