hannahcstocks's review against another edition
4.25
Graphic: Mental illness, Toxic relationship, Sexual harassment, Rape, Grief, Emotional abuse, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Cancer, Child abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, Physical abuse, and Terminal illness
Moderate: Gaslighting, Eating disorder, Body shaming, Stalking, Sexism, and Misogyny
Minor: Animal cruelty and Animal death
lorenag5's review against another edition
3.25
Graphic: Grief, Racism, Rape, Cancer, Mental illness, Misogyny, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexism, and Sexual assault
queerghstbuster's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Domestic abuse, and Sexual violence
Moderate: Mental illness, Gaslighting, Rape, and Sexism
Minor: Bullying and Racism
ekmook's review against another edition
3.25
Graphic: Sexual assault, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Child abuse, Gaslighting, Grief, Misogyny, Rape, Racism, Sexism, Sexual content, and Stalking
Minor: Blood
autozone's review against another edition
5.0
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“To the world, he was a bad man. To me, he was my dad who did a bad thing. I was still trying to figure out what it meant to love someone who had done such a bad thing, but I did love him. And that was enough for me to show up, and say so to his face.”
Graphic: Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Rape, Cancer, Child abuse, Classism, Emotional abuse, Grief, Sexism, Sexual content, Racism, and Domestic abuse
Moderate: Stalking
just_one_more_paige's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Grief, Rape, and Toxic relationship
Moderate: Medical content, Racism, Sexism, Body shaming, and Death
emfass's review
4.5
Graphic: Rape, Sexual assault, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Death, Sexual violence, Sexism, Misogyny, Medical content, Medical trauma, Grief, Cancer, Pedophilia, Confinement, Body shaming, Animal death, and Gaslighting
Moderate: Animal cruelty, Forced institutionalization, Pregnancy, Panic attacks/disorders, and Toxic relationship
caseythereader's review
5.0
- SOMEBODY'S DAUGHTER is an exploration of not only growing up and finding yourself, but finding your parents, too - the good and the bad parts of them. It's a book about loving difficult people, and holding conflicting parts of yourself and your loved ones at the same time.
- One thing that really stuck out to me is the way Ford illustrates how confusing childhood can be, when you're often punished for breaking rules you didn't know existed and the adults don't give any further explanation.
Graphic: Animal death, Blood, Cancer, Child death, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Excrement, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Medical content, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Pregnancy, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Terminal illness, and Violence
ahliahreads's review against another edition
4.75
Graphic: Physical abuse, Sexism, and Rape
Moderate: Racism
patricia_epub's review
4.5
“When you write about you and me? Just tell the truth. Your truth. Don’t worry about nobody’s feelings, especially not mine. You gotta be tough to tell your truth, but it’s the only thing worth doing next to loving somebody.”
This is a pleasant, spontaneous read that I am so glad I picked up (or clicked on, rather). Ashley C. Ford is a thoughtful writer and this fact shone through the way she wrote her memoir. Her experiences were deeply emotional, scarring, and painful—but she told her story, her truth, with the careful gentleness of someone who struggled for a long time but has also started healing (and continues to heal up to this day), someone who's been learning to be kinder to their selves. She wrote with understanding of the people who shaped her, good and bad. Wrote with sobriety that I think accorded much more nuance to the tone of her memoir.
As I said in my initial impression of this book, there is just so much to unpack. The Black experience is there tied with poverty, trauma, and the universal struggles of women: sexualization of women’s bodies, rape, and assault. There is also the inescapable struggle to reconcile her trauma with her absent father, and the truth behind his absence. Her tumultuous relationship with a detached, abusive single mother. The complicated feelings she associates with a grandmother who is both her loving caregiver but also her harshest critic.
I am truly glad to have heard this story from the author herself through her wonderful narration of the audiobook.
Moderate: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Miscarriage, Pregnancy, Rape, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence
Minor: Body shaming, Bullying, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Sexism, Stalking, and Toxic relationship