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Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls by T Kira Madden

29 reviews

emzireads's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Drug abuse, and Pedophilia

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Homophobia, Racial slurs, and Fire/Fire injury

jackelz's review

challenging emotional reflective

T Kira Madden was born to a single Chinese, Kānaka Maoli (Hawaiian) mother and a Jewish father who was married to someone else at the time. Even though her father divorced his first wife and married Madden's mother when the author was still quite young, he was absent from her life — hence the title, which also nods to the death of her father in early 2016. Both of Madden's parents were, in fact, absent in different ways throughout her youth, largely due to addiction. 

 

She stood out in her private school and was bullied for her appearance; she was the horse girl who had a back brace, headgear, braces; she was called "Kinky Chinky,” and she lived in extravagance with her designer shoe-brand name. 

 At times the stories seem random, and the book wasn’t formatted like a traditional memoir. There isn’t much of a lesson to learn from her experiences, but I understood her longing for connection. Her childhood was absolutely wild, and me being the same age as her, there was a lot that felt familiar. 

 

Madden holds nothing back in these pages. It's a story about trauma and forgiveness, reckoning with her queer and biracial identity, about families of blood and affinity. Part 3 was my favorite and I could read a book just about that. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Bullying, Drug use, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, and Alcohol

Moderate: Child abuse, Homophobia, Infidelity, Pedophilia, Toxic relationship, Xenophobia, Grief, and Death of parent

shewantsthediction's review

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Bullying, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Homophobia, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Grief, Death of parent, Toxic friendship, and Alcohol

Moderate: Infidelity

Minor: Abortion and Pregnancy

aleesquer's review

challenging dark emotional reflective medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Child abuse, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Homophobia, Infidelity, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Sexual content, Xenophobia, Medical content, Death of parent, Lesbophobia, Fire/Fire injury, Toxic friendship, and Alcohol

Moderate: Biphobia, Pedophilia, Rape, Violence, Blood, Murder, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

dori39's review

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Racial slurs, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence

charleyroxy's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Bullying, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, and Death of parent

bookishcori's review

challenging emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Drug abuse, Eating disorder, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexual assault, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Death of parent

questingnotcoasting's review

emotional reflective medium-paced

4.0

This was a really interesting memoir. Madden reflects on her identity, her childhood and the instability of her family life in such a raw and honest way. She tells her story through essays and fragments rather than a linear narrative. I sometimes wasn't completely sure where a chapter was going but the writing is fantastic and always kept me hooked. While I tend to prefer memoirs with a more traditionally cohesive narrative, the conclusion of this was really powerful and brought the rest of it together for me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Drug use, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Grief, and Death of parent

thebookadvocate's review

challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault and Sexual content

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Homophobia, Racial slurs, Racism, Suicide attempt, and Death of parent