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celticthistle's review against another edition
4.0
Moderate: Alcoholism, Body horror, Bullying, Cancer, Child abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Infertility, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Car accident, and Death of parent
flamesocks's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Chronic illness, Drug abuse, Drug use, Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, Toxic relationship, Xenophobia, Medical content, Grief, Car accident, Death of parent, and Alcohol
Moderate: Abortion
_annika__'s review against another edition
3.0
The issue I have with this book is personal, but perhaps relatable to anyone from a small town - I almost had to put the book down because I couldn’t stand the author continuously calling Eugene, Oregon (second biggest city in the state, a major PAC12 college town, an hour away from Portland) small, boring, and dull. Almost every single person I’ve met that’s lived in a <10,000 person town (and bigger, honestly) would KILL to be in Eugene. If the author would have said “I hated growing up in Eugene” I could’ve moved on, but she seemed to hate it specifically because it’s “small” and because there was “nothing to do.”
Every kid that’s suffered growing up in a 3,000 person town in the middle of a corn field somewhere in the Midwest - where 99.99% of the population is white and so strictly religious they unironically call Halloween “the devil’s holiday” and avoid you like the plague if you don’t go to their same church (imagine if you don’t go to church at all, and they repeatedly egg your house for it) - would have likely cut off a finger or two to grow up in Eugene or anywhere near it. I’m hoping the author bemoaned her adolescence in such a “small town” for dramatic effect and that she didn’t actually feel that strongly about it.
I understand teenage angst and depression and would have been more understanding if that was the main reason for feeling the way she did growing up, since most teens experience those feelings and at least at the time, likely no matter where you live, we feel like we don’t belong and we hate it there. But the amount of those feelings that she blamed specifically on the “small dull Pacific Northwest town” she lived in personally made my eye twitch. Growing up in a larger, modern, and progressive college town (often rated one of the most progressive cities in the entire U.S.) would be a privilege to sooo many.
Since the reader knows she’s writing this post-adolescence I was waiting for her to correct how she felt about this small town with “nothing to do” (aside from going to record stores, go vintage clothes shopping, get specialty Korean ingredients from a local market, and see Modest Mouse - just to name a few). Again, I acknowledge this as a personal issue taken with the book, but I assume most people that grew up in rural or small towns would struggle and also feel that a large part of the author’s adolescence and story is unreachable and I relatable because of this as well.
Graphic: Cancer, Chronic illness, Death, Terminal illness, Medical content, Grief, Car accident, and Death of parent
Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Bullying, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Panic attacks/disorders, Abortion, and Alcohol
daniofthewood's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Cancer, Death, Terminal illness, Grief, and Death of parent
Moderate: Alcoholism, Drug use, Infidelity, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Medical content, Car accident, and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Addiction, Body shaming, Racism, and Abortion
biab00's review against another edition
4.5
Sometimes my grief feels as thought I've been left alone in a room with no doors. Every time I remember that my mother is dead, it feels like I'm colliding with a wall that won't give. There's no escape, just a hard surface that I keep ramming into over and over, a reminder of the immutable reality that I will never see her again.
Graphic: Chronic illness, Death, Panic attacks/disorders, Terminal illness, Medical content, Grief, Death of parent, and Alcohol
edencameron's review against another edition
5.0
Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Cursing, Death, Fatphobia, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicide, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Abortion, and Death of parent
raelong12's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Cancer, Terminal illness, Vomit, and Death of parent
Moderate: Alcoholism, Panic attacks/disorders, Excrement, and Medical content
xeno_reads's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Cancer, Death, Panic attacks/disorders, Terminal illness, Medical content, Grief, and Death of parent
mirandyli's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Cancer, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Infidelity, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, Sexism, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Xenophobia, Excrement, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Religious bigotry, Car accident, Abortion, Death of parent, Alcohol, and Colonisation
literaryinluv's review against another edition
4.75
Graphic: Cancer, Chronic illness, Death, Grief, and Death of parent
Moderate: Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, and Medical content
Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, Infidelity, Car accident, Abortion, and Alcohol