Reviews tagging 'Domestic abuse'

Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls by T Kira Madden

22 reviews

tordoffgrace's review

challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse and Sexual assault

Moderate: Domestic abuse

khakipantsofsex's review

dark emotional reflective sad fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Grief, and Death of parent

Moderate: Child abuse, Eating disorder, and Self harm

mscalls's review

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Infidelity, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Violence, Vomit, Grief, Car accident, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Lesbophobia, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

1quillb's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Domestic abuse, and Racial slurs

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Cursing, Drug abuse, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Suicide, Death of parent, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Body shaming, Xenophobia, Vomit, Pregnancy, Abandonment, and Sexual harassment

jarku's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful reflective slow-paced

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Death of parent, and Alcohol

Moderate: Infidelity, Racial slurs, Terminal illness, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Xenophobia, Toxic friendship, and Abandonment

Minor: Eating disorder, Toxic relationship, and Lesbophobia

yomireads's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad

3.5

I'll state straight away, my bad for not checking content warnings.

This book is deeply painful and unflinchingly honest about very difficult things, and I was not the target audience for this story. Having said that, I appreciate and applaud the courage and skill of this memoir. It's a beautifully written and powerfully moving story that I believe needed to be told. I know there are many who will benefit from reading this and feel seen, connected to, and unalone in these pages.

For my part, I found the nonlinear storytelling to be confusing and quite hard to keep straight in my mind as far as who was alive, when events happened relative to one another, and the relative age of anyone at any given moment. I was deeply disturbed by the graphic depictions of her sexual assault, but feel uncomfortable truly criticizing it as I know feeling disturbed is a part of what is meant to be evoked, and any victim should be permitted to claim their story and find strength in it however they can. 

All else that might have made me squirm, I have no true qualms as far as the memoir goes, as a critique of non fiction, by its very nature, can't be about story content. It's about a life, and no outside observer/reader can truly say what deserves to be included in that realm. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Bullying, Drug abuse, Drug use, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Death of parent, Lesbophobia, and Alcohol

Moderate: Domestic abuse and Homophobia

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Biphobia, and Infertility

merldia's review

dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

A perfect book for girls who grew up with fathers but not dads, for girls who had more identity crises by 20 than most have in a lifetime, for girls who were betrayed by their families, and for girls who love their families despite all that.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Bullying, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Homophobia, Infidelity, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Lesbophobia, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

ynit_g's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful reflective sad slow-paced

4.5

This is very much a "all the trigger warnings" very seriously kind of book but it's a really good read nonetheless

The last chapter of the book was honestly my favorite part especially with it going back and forth between her and her mom's timeline

I don't have much to say besides READ. THIS. BOOK. Anyone wants a suggestion for a good memoir to read this is it

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Bullying, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Terminal illness, Xenophobia, Grief, and Alcohol

Moderate: Death, Domestic abuse, Homophobia, Suicidal thoughts, Death of parent, and Lesbophobia

noladawnreads's review against another edition

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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Bullying, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Racial slurs, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, and Xenophobia

Moderate: Death of parent

Minor: Fire/Fire injury

annabelle42688's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

So sad, but well writen.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Domestic abuse, Sexual assault, and Abandonment

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