Reviews tagging 'Miscarriage'

The Forgotten Girls: An American Story by Monica Potts

7 reviews

hellbender's review against another edition

dark informative reflective sad medium-paced

2.5

Like the author, I grew up in the Ozarks in the 90s and was excited to find a book authored by an Ozarker about the hardships of rural communities. But this book is only 1/3 that, and is 2/3s the story of her best friend and sisters. That wasn’t quite what I wanted out of the book, and I found that component of it long, drawn out, and boring. The way the statistics were peppered in also broke the flow, making the whole book feel rather disjointed to me. The ending also left me wanting solutions. It outlines the problems facing rural communities, but no real tangible ideas to improve the communities. So while I liked the subject matter at a high level, I think it could’ve been well addressed in 2/3rds the number of pages.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death and Car accident

Moderate: Drug abuse, Drug use, and Miscarriage

rchatterjee188's review

emotional hopeful informative reflective sad slow-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Child death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Self harm, Grief, and Car accident

Moderate: Alcoholism, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, and Alcohol

Minor: Ableism, Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Bullying, Child abuse, Cursing, Hate crime, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, Rape, Forced institutionalization, Abortion, Murder, Abandonment, Colonisation, Dysphoria, Injury/Injury detail, Classism, and Pandemic/Epidemic

mondovertigo's review against another edition

dark emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Misogyny, Grief, Religious bigotry, Car accident, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Racism and Pregnancy

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, and Abortion

cghegan's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Death, Drug use, Mental illness, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Car accident, and Alcohol

Minor: Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Grief, Suicide attempt, Pregnancy, and Abandonment

rly's review against another edition

informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Miscarriage, and Pregnancy

debussy's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

I am a white woman not far off from the author’s age and grew up in the Arkansas Ozarks. So much of this book felt like reading about my own life—the relentless isolation, conservatism, and xenophobia of the area as well as the driving need to leave it while developing a strange, complicated relationship with it afterward are so on point. The way the area is a deeply messed up patriarchy steeped with religion makes women scapegoats—there to be blamed or used by the men who have little in their lives except the ability to control others. This is a sad, compelling, and unfortunately accurate portrait of a place I still love. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Car accident, Toxic friendship, and Classism

Moderate: Child death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Misogyny, Xenophobia, Death of parent, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Minor: Miscarriage and Physical abuse

sjanke2's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Grief, and Car accident

Moderate: Cancer, Death, Domestic abuse, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Rape, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Medical content, and Death of parent