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querciola's review against another edition
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
4.0
Graphic: Blood, Medical content, Abortion, and Pregnancy
Moderate: Child death, Death, Misogyny, Sexism, Grief, and Classism
sarawagistrom's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
informative
reflective
tense
medium-paced
4.75
Graphic: Abortion
Moderate: Misogyny and Blood
Minor: Sexual content
geraldinerowe's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
informative
inspiring
sad
fast-paced
4.5
Part memoir, part social commentary, covering both the misogyny and classism of 1960s France, this is an incredibly powerful book about the author's experience of abortion in her early twenties. Ernaux repeatedly plunges you into her novelistic style of storytelling, only to pull you out again to remind you that she's writing this from memory four decades later. Seeing her experiences from both the perspective of her young self as it happened, and also with hindsight telling us what stayed with her and affected her later life, makes the book all the more compelling.
Graphic: Miscarriage, Misogyny, Sexism, Medical content, Abortion, Pregnancy, and Classism
suspicious_salmon's review against another edition
dark
emotional
inspiring
fast-paced
4.0
Graphic: Abortion
Moderate: Misogyny, Sexism, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Pregnancy, and Classism
therecoveringbookworm's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
informative
reflective
medium-paced
4.0
Graphic: Miscarriage, Misogyny, Sexism, and Abortion
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