Reviews tagging 'Suicidal thoughts'

Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir by Natasha Trethewey

9 reviews

moniipeters's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Domestic abuse, Kidnapping, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Violence, Blood, Pregnancy, Rape, Child abuse, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Gun violence, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, and Emotional abuse

clarabooksit's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, Violence, Gun violence, Death of parent, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Physical abuse, Murder, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, and Racism

Moderate: Child abuse and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Suicide

pjwanders's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Grief, Murder, Gun violence, Violence, Toxic relationship, Domestic abuse, and Mental illness

tinytrashqueen's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Toxic relationship, Gaslighting, Emotional abuse, Murder, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Suicidal thoughts, and Grief

Moderate: Racism, Racial slurs, and Eating disorder

thepassivebookworm's review against another edition

challenging emotional sad slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Murder, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Mental illness, and Toxic relationship

reviewsandreadathons's review against another edition

challenging reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Murder, Death, Death of parent, Eating disorder, Grief, Mental illness, Misogyny, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, and Toxic relationship

invaderlinz's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Toxic relationship, Suicidal thoughts, Stalking, Sexual content, Self harm, Racial slurs, Racism, Murder, Physical abuse, Mental illness, Gun violence, Grief, Emotional abuse, Domestic abuse, Blood, and Death of parent

beardedreading's review against another edition

dark hopeful inspiring sad tense medium-paced

5.0

<i>Memorial Drive</i> tells the story of a young girl who experiences more pain than anyone should endure: the murder of her mother by her stepfather's hand. Trethewey's upbringing in Mississippi to that fateful day on Memorial Drive in Atlanta details the road that shaped her into the poet she is today. We see the trials of living Black in the segregated South through her mother's eyes, as well as being mixed race through Trethewey's. This memoir will destroy you, as you feel various hurts along with Trethewey. And yet, it feels like a necessary trip looking back into one's own memory in order to move forward. 

Brilliant, searing, aching. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Gun violence, Grief, Emotional abuse, Domestic abuse, and Death

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts and Physical abuse

Minor: Child abuse, Cursing, Suicidal thoughts, and Racism

nordstina's review against another edition

challenging emotional sad tense medium-paced

4.75

Natasha Trethewey begins her memoir Memorial Drive with a question: Do you know what it means to have a wound that never heals?. A heartbreaker of a question that permeates throughout the book. The reader finds out early on that her mother was shot and killed by her ex-husband. Trethewey then slowly lays out the story, leading up to the crime. This story is heart wrenching and was so difficult to read. The situation was untenable- the man was threatening her, and the police did not do enough. Reading the transcripts of phone calls between her mother, a social worker, trying to rationalize with this man is gut punch. The ongoing trauma that both her mother experiences and the author feels in the aftermath of the murder is horrible. I read this with a pit in my stomach the whole time. Even so, it is so well-written and engaging. Trethewey is a US Poet Laureate and I can see why- she has such a way with words. Wow. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, and Physical abuse