Reviews tagging 'Child abuse'

How to Say Babylon by Safiya Sinclair

26 reviews

ittywitty's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Torture, Violence, Bullying, Drug use, Misogyny, Toxic relationship, Colonisation, Suicidal thoughts, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, and Self harm

Moderate: Racism, Abandonment, Body shaming, Classism, Confinement, and Racial slurs

Minor: Cancer

anniesbookpicks's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, and Child abuse

Moderate: Misogyny and Religious bigotry

ooo's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Child abuse, and Emotional abuse

emilyjmasters's review against another edition

challenging emotional

4.5

Virgin Suicides X Educated X Rastafari culture

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Child abuse, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Sexual assault

kyladjamila's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Domestic abuse, Child abuse, and Emotional abuse

znvisser's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.25

Beautiful memoir that taught me a lot while drawing a picture of the authors life: Safiya Sinclair manages to interweave personal memories seamlessly with Jamaican and Rastafarian history, making her story a whole. Her childhood memories are detailed and lively, drawn poetically with childlike wonder, shamelessness and parental worship, after which you feel complexity grow and doubts creeping in as she gets older. Sinclair is so proficient with language and I loved taking this in through audio as well, because her voice is gorgeous and she had great melody to her storytelling.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Misogyny, Violence, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Religious bigotry, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Bullying, Domestic abuse, Toxic relationship, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Racism, Infertility, Injury/Injury detail, Self harm, Colonisation, Pregnancy, and Blood

Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, Miscarriage, Drug use, Racial slurs, Body shaming, and Cancer

samuriah's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective sad tense slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse

Moderate: Misogyny, Emotional abuse, Child abuse, Colonisation, Religious bigotry, and Confinement

amyjo25's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective tense medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse and Child abuse

djames17's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

This book was simply amazing. Safiya Sinclair is an amazing poet, and reading/listening to her book will literally transport you into her life experiences. I felt seen in so many ways as a Jamaican daughter myself, but I find that any daughter can see herself in this book in some way. You will not be disappointed with this book. In addition, the Jamaican dialect is sprinkled throughout, and the history of Rastafari is imppecable. Thank you for writing your story. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Violence, Child abuse, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Misogyny

shay43geek's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Misogyny, Emotional abuse, Violence, Sexism, and Child abuse

Moderate: Religious bigotry, Confinement, Body shaming, and Infidelity

Minor: Abandonment