Reviews tagging 'Grief'

On Gold Mountain: A Family Memoir of Love, Struggle and Survival by Lisa See

2 reviews

betag1013's review against another edition

Very repetitive and didn't really capture my attention. The family history is really cool and interesting but I found the chapters to be very repetitive of each other and didn't really progress into the history (made it half way through chapter 7).

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Confinement, Death, Genocide, Hate crime, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexism, Slavery, Torture, Forced institutionalization, Trafficking, Grief, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Cultural appropriation, Abandonment, Colonisation, Classism, and Deportation

peachmoni's review against another edition

informative slow-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Infidelity, Racism, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Death, Domestic abuse, Sexism, Xenophobia, Grief, Death of parent, and Pregnancy

Minor: Cancer, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Racial slurs, and Kidnapping