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haley_s's review
challenging
emotional
informative
reflective
sad
fast-paced
4.0
This story weaves together the development of Jell-O with women's history to tell the story of how one product helped contribute to the suppression of women and their voices. Through her story and that of her mother, the author describes how these repressed emotions lead to serious health issues both for her and girls and women elsewhere. This is not what I expected from this book, but it made me think about the ways in which society never moves away from history, but finds ways to keep itself alive.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Alcoholism, Cancer, Chronic illness, Eating disorder, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Medical content, and Death of parent