jennburk's review
5.0
A truly moving account of a woman, her body and the ways in which they must move through a world together where their health is not a priority compared to male patients. Bolden's memoir is an important reminder of how much work there is left to be done in the realms of healthcare, dialogues about our bodies and conversations around sexuality. This a remarkable, vulnerable work and I highly recommend it.
dimolkova's review
4.0
oof. Bolden's memoir captures how modern American medicine shamefully fails women. even white, middle-class, and college educated women; i was once horrified to find out that Black women die in childbirth 2 to 3 times more often than white women, and this statistic kept running through my mind as i was listening to this book. i appreciated how Bolden reflects on the unreliability of her body, and how by needing medical attention her body ceased to be solely hers. while most of us take for granted that nothing is as much ours as our bodies, doctors in this memoir repeatedly deny Bolden the authority of knowing her own body. i have to admit that whenever a medical professional would tell Bolden that she is just "spotting" and that's normal, i kept wishing that she would just drop her soaked-through kotex on their desks, that's how angry i felt on her behalf.
jshroy's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
medium-paced
4.75
Content Warnings
Moderate: Medical content, Infertility, and Medical trauma