Reviews tagging 'Abandonment'

Beautiful Country: A Memoir of An Undocumented Childhood by Qian Julie Wang

9 reviews

drlainie's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child abuse, Xenophobia, Excrement, Vomit, Medical trauma, Classism, and Deportation

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Body shaming, Cancer, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Grief, Abandonment, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Bullying, Misogyny, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Stalking, Abortion, and Death of parent

a_sleepy_berry's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense slow-paced

4.5

The story itself was beautiful and it was very easy to draw parallels to my own life as someone who also immigrated to the United States from a non-English speaking country. However, the pacing was kind of too slow for me and the writing style made it harder to read. Overall, if you love reading memoirs, I would highly recommend this book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Racial slurs, Racism, Xenophobia, Abandonment, War, and Classism

newtons's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Ableism, Body shaming, Bullying, Cancer, Chronic illness, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Mental illness, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, Police brutality, Medical content, Abandonment, Sexual harassment, War, and Classism

aargot1's review against another edition

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Xenophobia, Vomit, Medical content, and Abandonment

alyssancoon's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful medium-paced

5.0

Beautifully written, very important story. I can not recommend this book enough!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racial slurs, Racism, Xenophobia, and Vomit

Minor: Abandonment

internationalreads's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Bullying, Cancer, Domestic abuse, Fatphobia, Racism, Xenophobia, Blood, Medical content, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Abortion

ab_and_flow's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring tense slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Racial slurs, and Stalking

Moderate: Domestic abuse and Abandonment

andrealac's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective sad slow-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Minor: Racial slurs, Racism, and Abandonment

sjanke2's review against another edition

emotional sad tense slow-paced

2.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Bullying, Racism, Medical content, and Abandonment