Reviews tagging 'Cancer'

What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in Essays by Damon Young

3 reviews

martinatan's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative lighthearted reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

One indicator of how good a memoir this is, is how emotional I felt reading the acknowledgements at the end. Really appreciate the complex feelings and reflection that this book holds. I have a lot of admiration for Damon Young’s ability to balance levity and gravity and bring up events from his life with so much specificity about how he felt at the time they happened, in contrast with how he can look back on it with greater wisdom.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs

Moderate: Bullying, Cancer, Cursing, Death, Homophobia, Infidelity, Misogyny, Sexism, Sexual content, Slavery, Terminal illness, Violence, Police brutality, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Cultural appropriation, Sexual harassment, Colonisation, and Classism

Minor: Addiction, Child death, Drug use, Genocide, Rape, Sexual assault, Mass/school shootings, Medical trauma, Abandonment, and Alcohol

keeganrb's review against another edition

reflective medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Racism, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Sexual content and Death of parent

Minor: Cancer and Infidelity

mandkips's review against another edition

emotional funny reflective medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Death of parent

Minor: Cancer and Infidelity