Reviews tagging 'Suicidal thoughts'

Punch Me Up to the Gods: A Memoir by Brian Broome

7 reviews

remimicha's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective tense medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Body shaming, Cursing, Death of parent, Addiction, Alcohol, Bullying, Child abuse, Classism, Death, Drug use, Misogyny, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Self harm, Sexual content, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Fire/Fire injury, Homophobia, Hate crime, Racial slurs, Racism, Religious bigotry, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Terminal illness, and Toxic relationship

aus10england's review

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

4.75

Wow, did this hit. What a brilliant memoir about black queer identity. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Sexual violence, Sexual content, Outing, Fire/Fire injury, Violence, Racism, and Racial slurs

Moderate: Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, and Rape

oyveyori's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

This was so emotional and incredible.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Homophobia, Drug abuse, Drug use, Physical abuse, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Death of parent

Minor: Abortion

hellojay's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad tense slow-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Racism, and Physical abuse

Minor: Suicidal thoughts

chambersaurusrx's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Homophobia, Drug use, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Self harm

hyac1nthgirl's review

challenging emotional reflective tense slow-paced

4.5

beautiful, painful, real. broome's words are thoughtful & poetic while relaying raw emotion. a chapter that stood out to me was the chapter in his mother's point of view. what a beautiful tribute to her and what a beautiful way to humanize a figure most people have trouble humanizing, the mother.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Child abuse, Racial slurs, Drug abuse, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, and Bullying

alertnerd's review

dark emotional reflective sad

4.5

TW: child abuse, domestic violence, drug addiction, alcoholism, racism, racial slurs, homophobia, suicidal thoughts, suicide attempt, bullying

In his memoir, Punch Me Up to the Gods, Brian Broome takes us through a disjointed, nonlinear trip through his life. He recounts the kids who used to hurl racist and homophobic abuse at him as a kid, his constant striving for his parents’ love and affection, and his tumultuous adulthood filled with drugs, sex, and alcohol.

All of these stories seem to come back to the same message: society is failing our Black boys. White people force them to grow up too soon, Black culture forces them into rigid, outdated and harmful roles, and the world expects too much out of them.

A lot of Broome’s memories are painful and hard to read, but also so important. The intersectionality of Black queerness is often ignored.

Thanks to BookishFirst and HMH for this ARC!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Drug abuse, Racism, Homophobia, and Racial slurs

Moderate: Alcoholism, Bullying, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Suicide attempt