Reviews tagging 'Self harm'

In the Country We Love: My Family Divided by Diane Guerrero

20 reviews

kthyha3's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad tense slow-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm and Suicide

Moderate: Mental illness, Deportation, Racism, Panic attacks/disorders, and Addiction

andreabrown's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm, Suicide attempt, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Racial slurs

bobagirl41's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.0

Diane Guerrero’s memoir was such an open and vulnerable telling of her life experiences, from her parents getting deported and having to survive on her own as a teenager, to battling mental health challenges, to facing her traumas head on and growing and healing. It humanized the faces behind the politically charged issue of undocumented people in America and demonstrated how community can keep people going, even when government systems fail to do so. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Self harm

hellosharo's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring sad tense medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Alcohol, Suicide attempt, Abandonment, Deportation, Alcoholism, and Self harm

megwilli's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Deportation, Suicide attempt, Alcohol, Suicide, and Self harm

mckennacat's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm

Moderate: Racism, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt

aimnorth's review against another edition

emotional funny reflective fast-paced

5.0

The author has a beautiful way of telling a tense and emotional story with a unique and funny voice. It is frequently sad but also hopeful and overall it's just informative and realistic.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, and Deportation

Moderate: Alcohol, Mental illness, and Addiction

The story is about a young girl whose parents are deported and then she often struggles with addiction and dark thoughts through her adult life.

savgonzales's review against another edition

challenging emotional inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicide, Self harm, and Alcoholism

vaniavela's review against another edition

emotional medium-paced

5.0

Imagine being 14 years old when your family is deported.

Diane's memoir is a look at how she fell through the cracks of the system after her parents were taken away. No one took care of her, leaving her to fend for herself.

Each chapter includes a great photograph that gives us a glimpse of what her family was like back then, along with beautiful footnotes.

The writing style is very thoughtful and shows us the author's strength and courage. She not only shares her story, but discusses how this traumatic situation had an impact on her life. 

Like Diane's family, this is a situation that happens every day. Children are taken from their parents, leaving them alone, scared and on their own.  This is such a beautiful, eye opening book. Highly recommended.


TW: forcible family separation, deportation, self-harm, suicidal ideation, xenophobia, racism, depression, anxiety.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Xenophobia

Moderate: Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, and Racism

maggies's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative medium-paced

2.0

An important story, to be sure, but written in much too conversational a tone for my liking. The content was at least high school level, given the wide array of traumas explored, but the style was more like second grade, and it was a turn off for me. Also, perhaps because the book was initially published in 2016, the ideas/solutions presented in the call to action in the last two-ish chapters were less than revolutionary. I definitely felt for Diane and her family and families like hers, just couldn't get on board with the delivery.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Misogyny, Suicide attempt, Toxic relationship, Abandonment, Addiction, Alcoholism, Mental illness, Sexism, Sexual harassment, Racism, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, and Drug use