Reviews tagging 'Domestic abuse'

Sleepwalking by Meg Wolitzer

4 reviews

vera_nikolajevna's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Death, and Grief

Minor: Drug use and Domestic abuse

our_lamp's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

Quietly beautiful; emotionally hefty. Wolitzer has a keen sense of real feeling in what feels like a fleeting moment of intense yet subtle intimacy, like that in the delicate, meticulous strokes of a painting or in a glance between two strangers in a crowd. With this novel comes the deeply intense moment of realization that you cannot change or fix grief and trauma and mental illness, whether that be your own or someone else’s. Here is an indelible meditation on art, how we make it, how we use it, and why we (try to) do any of it. Essentially, Sleepwalking manages to craft a delicately brief portrait of life—specifically these particular lives—which is what attracts me most to the art we create, and Meg Wolitzer does this with such a perfected, poetic aura of realist naturalism that leaves you almost bereaved when you reach the final page.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Mental illness, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Terminal illness

Minor: Domestic abuse

itsmycah's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt, Suicide, Cancer, Child death, and Death

Moderate: Mental illness

Minor: Domestic abuse and Sexual content

lucyrosemack's review against another edition

dark reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Terminal illness

Minor: Domestic abuse and Drug use