Reviews tagging 'Misogyny'

The Office of Historical Corrections by Danielle Evans

11 reviews

helhas3letters's review

reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

This collection of short stories is well written, although I found a lot of the content quite depressing. I most enjoyed the story 'Why Won't Women Just Say What They Want'.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Medical content, Misogyny, and Grief

Moderate: Alcohol, Cancer, Chronic illness, Sexual content, Death, and Racism

Minor: Blood, Classism, Gun violence, Mass/school shootings, Police brutality, Addiction, Alcoholism, and Pregnancy

mpaterson's review

dark emotional funny reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

This is my first Danielle Evans read and I’m an instant fan. Short storytelling is an art and she’s an artist. Each story was a uniquely powerful look into the plurality of experiences with racial inequity in America - equally poignant and pithy and effortlessly moves from witty to  uncomfortable to melancholy. I’ll be sitting with the final pages for some time.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism

Moderate: Misogyny, Death, and Cancer

Minor: Hate crime, Domestic abuse, Gun violence, Racial slurs, and Car accident

mmayern's review

challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Death of parent, Death, Gun violence, Racism, Violence, Car accident, Gaslighting, Racial slurs, Terminal illness, Colonisation, Grief, Hate crime, Misogyny, Murder, Toxic relationship, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Police brutality, and Sexism

ginnycady's review

emotional reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racism

Minor: Misogyny

balladofreadingqueer's review

challenging informative reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? N/A
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

I really enjoyed this short story collection. My favourite was the title story. It follows two black women historians as they work at the new Institute of Public History that corrects historical errors. We learn about their intertwined lives together in school, grad school and their job and discover their dislike of one another but often their allegiance. It explores on historical plaque in Wisconsin and the story of a racist arson attack, passing and family secrets. It ends with racial violence.

Many of the stories explore history and American race relations. Boys go to Jupiter examines a white woman wearing a confederate flag bikini, her run ins with the university diversity board, the hate mail (and support) she received. It also reflects on her earlier life, a close friendship with a black neighbour and her brother and her silence and responsibility for his death. Happily Ever After set in a titanic museum which considers medical racism and tokenism. Alcatraz explores familial history, desire to correct the historical record of an incorrect dishonorable discharge after her grandfather was falsely imprisoned.

Overall this story collection predominantly focuses on the stories of black women and addresses a lot of important and difficult themes such as white supremacy, death of parents and friends, breakdown of relationships, misogyny and how these women attempted to live their lives with joy and dignity in a difficult world.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racism

Minor: Car accident, Cancer, Death of parent, Hate crime, Misogyny, and Murder

ladyandherlibrary's review

emotional funny informative reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? N/A
• Strong character development? N/A
• Loveable characters? N/A
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Death, Kidnapping, and Misogyny

peachani's review against another edition

challenging medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Hate crime, Misogyny, Racial slurs, and Racism

Moderate: Cancer, Mass/school shootings, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence

Minor: Murder

emily_koopmann's review

challenging emotional informative reflective tense

• Loveable characters? No

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence and Hate crime

Moderate: Cancer, Death, Death of parent, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, and Sexual assault

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Bullying, Car accident, Sexism, Suicide, and Toxic relationship

honeyhistory103's review

challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

This is a beautifully written collection. The stories are reflective and thought-provoking, and have an emotion to them that laces itself between each carefully chosen word. The close dealing with race and womanhood, and often the intersection of those things, makes it feel intimately familiar, as if the characters in the stories are people that live just down the block. Evans writes characters that are painfully realistic, neither all good nor all bad, but simply human.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Racial slurs, Suicide, Grief, Misogyny, Death, Death of parent, and Hate crime

Moderate: Violence and Car accident

Minor: Mass/school shootings

caseythereader's review

challenging dark emotional funny reflective tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

- Every single story in this collection feels like it could be its own novel, and yet somehow I am not left wanting more from any of them - they are all perfectly self-contained.
- Some feel ripped from modern headlines (Boys Go to Jupiter) and some are steeped in family history (Alcatraz) but every one feels populated with real people and real history.
- And when everyone tells you the novella that closes this book is phenomenal, everyone is right - holy cats, wow! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Car accident, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Grief, Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Infidelity, Kidnapping, Mass/school shootings, Misogyny, Murder, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Slavery, Suicide, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, and Violence