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ailiaris25's review
emotional
reflective
slow-paced
2.5
Graphic: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Sexual content, and Toxic relationship
Moderate: Colonisation
Minor: Alcoholism and Vomit
synastrii's review
adventurous
emotional
inspiring
reflective
tense
fast-paced
4.25
Moderate: Alcoholism, Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexism, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence, Grief, Abandonment, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism
bookreviewswithkb's review
emotional
informative
reflective
medium-paced
4.0
although this is an immigrant’s story, it’s not the just story of moving from Puerto Rico to New York, it’s the story of always moving, of always seeking, always wandering. of the gains but also the losses that come with every new location. of how what you’re seeking might not be found in a new home, a new city, a new country. of all the things we carry with us, forward, into the newness
“…that being in Brooklyn was not a new life but a continuation of the old one. that everything had changed, but nothing had changed, that whatever Mami had been looking for when she brought us to Brooklyn was not there, just as it wasn’t in Puerto Rico.”
Moderate: Child abuse, Child death, and Sexual harassment
Minor: Cancer
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