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Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls by T Kira Madden

9 reviews

mscalls's review

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challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

3.0


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1quillb's review against another edition

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challenging emotional reflective fast-paced

5.0


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sarahmerfi's review

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dark emotional reflective tense fast-paced

5.0


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yomireads's review against another edition

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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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merldia's review

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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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elliott_the_clementine's review against another edition

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emotional hopeful inspiring fast-paced

5.0

Update on 05.09.2024: I did not reread this book for a long time in fear that it would not be as powerful the second time around. It was an unfounded concern. Beautiful once again. 

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horizonous's review against another edition

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challenging emotional sad fast-paced

5.0


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betsygrace's review

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emotional reflective sad fast-paced

4.0


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aleesquer's review

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challenging dark emotional reflective medium-paced

3.75


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