Reviews tagging 'Incest'

Dirty River: A Queer Femme of Color Dreaming Her Way Home by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

10 reviews

eegred's review against another edition

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Incest

Minor: Suicidal thoughts

razzberry_pi's review against another edition

challenging emotional tense fast-paced

4.75

really interesting both from a memoir/experience perspective but also as a vision of Toronto activism in the 90s/00s before I was born and how different it was pre-gentrification

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse and Domestic abuse

Moderate: Chronic illness, Incest, Rape, Sexual violence, and Forced institutionalization

alaynacyan's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional funny hopeful informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

 "It all falls apart, and then it is a miracle. We don't understand it. We make the same mistakes over and over again."

A vulnerable story of abuse and fighting to carve out a path forward for oneself. Leah navigates queerness, mixed race identity, disability, poverty, immigration, complicated family history, and imperfect community to ultimately create a life full of love and possibility. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, and Incest

puttingwingsonwords's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Incest, Sexual assault, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Ableism, Cursing, Drug use, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racism, Sexual content, and Classism

thedisabledreader's review

challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Ableism, Addiction, Alcoholism, Bullying, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Incest, Mental illness, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Cultural appropriation, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

arachnophobia's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense slow-paced

4.0

The first bunch of chapters kind of felt like the same lines and events over and over again but by the time I got to the end of this book I was so moved. This author is brilliant and this book is an example of the power she holds as a writer and visionary. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse and Incest

marilou's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective slow-paced

3.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Domestic abuse and Incest

embervleo's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Ableism, Alcoholism, Biphobia, Body shaming, Bullying, Cancer, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Incest, Mental illness, Misogyny, Racism, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Police brutality, Grief, Abortion, Cultural appropriation, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

courtneyfalling's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective fast-paced

4.0

This made me cry cathartically, especially near the ending. I think so many childhood trauma and recovery memoirs follow a very linear arc, describing traumatic events in detail for presumably non-traumatized but fascinated audiences, then end with an acceptance of traditional, usually heteronormative and relatively depoliticized new family life. And they rarely get into what happens if trauma follows you, continues to pop up from triggers, changes who you are or what you want to find. Instead, this memoir focused a lot on trying to build a life, on the actual, messy complexity of "healing." I want to believe that sensitive, confused, sick, radical adults exist out there and don't just die or otherwise fade out in their early to mid-twenties, and in its rawness, this was also hopeful. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Incest, Rape, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Ableism, Chronic illness, Xenophobia, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Drug use, Police brutality, and Colonisation

gay's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Incest, Pedophilia, and Racism

Moderate: Ableism