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Somebody's Daughter: A Memoir by Ashley C. Ford

31 reviews

marigold_faye's review

challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Religious bigotry, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Body shaming, Child death, Misogyny, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Cancer, Death, Eating disorder, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Terminal illness, Blood, Grief, and Fire/Fire injury

bookends_by_zaz's review

challenging emotional slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual violence, and Violence

allipan's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

This book made me sob, but it also made me feel so seen. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Rape and Violence

gtrue21's review

challenging

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Incest, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual violence, Violence, Medical content, and Grief

twilightfan420's review against another edition

dark funny inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

5-star memoir alert! I enjoyed every page of this so much I risked getting horribly carsick to finish reading it on a road trip. The relationship with the author’s mother was so complex and expertly-detailed. I think Ford examined the multiplicity of what it means to be family in an enlightening way; the concept of unconditional love shone through the entire narrative and manifested very different through Ford’s individual relationships. I think Ford writes sexual trauma in an extremely conscious yet evocative way. I could feel her pain through  the writing but I could also feel her strength. As a survivor myself, I felt seen and empowered at the same time as Ford reckoned with her own experiences and the narrative she’d been told about her father throughout the work. Also, the way it the story was told starting and ending at the same point was so beautifully done. It felt wrapped up but still realistic in a way that many narrative nonfiction cannot capture.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Miscarriage, Rape, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Terminal illness, and Violence

Minor: Animal death

anger566's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Violence

Moderate: Death and Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Pregnancy and Injury/Injury detail

paperbacksandvinyl's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Rape, Violence, Grief, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Cancer and Death

carmenvillaman's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cancer, Emotional abuse, Rape, Suicidal thoughts, and Violence

sydna_lowe's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

3.5

It’s hard to give someone’s personal experiences a rating. Ashley C. Ford is clearly a fantastic writer who has lived through so much. But what I didn’t like about this book were:

1. the way it was falsely advertised (hardly touched on her experiences with her father)
2. the lack of structure. This was clearly just stream of conscience memories without much of a flow.

I think memoirs just aren’t really my thing. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Rape and Violence

karaswils's review

emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

“I didn’t want anyone to be a villain, and I didn’t want anyone to be a hero or a savior.” This statement perfectly encapsulates the way Ashley C. Ford depicts her most formative and heart-wrenching childhood, adolescent, and young adult experiences in Somebody’s Daughter: A Memoir. Everyone in the book gets a fair shake from Ford’s perspective, including her father who served 25 years in prison, and her violent and vivacious mother who raised her. 

The content warnings for this book are about a mile long, but nothing is gratuitous or sensationalized—it is simply honest, and even kind and sympathetic at points. Furthermore, Ford is able to clearly articulate the motivations, perceptions, and disappointments that everyone in the memoir feels, especially her and the people who raised her. But she still keeps her perspective and truth front and center, and thus the love, heartbreak, and truth in her story shine through. 

Ashley C. Ford is an excellent narrator as well as writer. I highly recommend the audio version of this book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, and Violence

Moderate: Death, Miscarriage, Panic attacks/disorders, Grief, and Stalking

Minor: Medical content and Fire/Fire injury