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Time Is a Mother by Ocean Vuong

36 reviews

rachjellie's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective tense medium-paced

5.0

Beautiful beautiful book. 

I don’t think it is fair to rate such an intimate book and collection of poems, so I won’t. I will say that this collection is a representation of love, loss, grief, humanity. What it means to feel and to be human. 

Some favorites:
Dear Sara
Amazon History of a Former Nail Salon Worker
Nothing 
Reasons for Staying
Ars Poetica as the Maker
Almost Human

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Homophobia, and Grief

akswhy's review against another edition

challenging sad medium-paced

2.5

Touching, but disjointed.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Racism, Sexual content, and Death of parent

issyd23's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective relaxing sad tense slow-paced

4.0

Beautiful, moving, heartbreaking: ‘Time is a motherfucker’. 

Highlights include: Amazon History of a Former Nail Salon Worker. 

‘In my language, the one I recall now only by closing my eyes, the word for love is Yêu.

And the word for weakness is Yếu.’ 4⏳

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Chronic illness, Death, Homophobia, Racism, Terminal illness, Violence, Medical content, Death of parent, Cultural appropriation, Colonisation, War, and Classism

mikkiokko's review

dark emotional reflective sad

5.0

No words, just astonishment. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Drug use, Homophobia, Mental illness, Suicide, Death of parent, and War

soswiin's review

dark emotional reflective medium-paced

2.5

still was just reading words on a page but had to stop and think about "because everyone knows yellow pain, pressed into american letters, turns into gold."

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Racism, Violence, and War

hello_lovely13's review

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, and Death of parent

Moderate: Cancer, Drug abuse, Homophobia, Racism, Sexual assault, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Suicide

murderousscottishgremlin's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

I cried a lot while reading this —Vuong has such a way with words.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Suicidal thoughts, and Xenophobia

Minor: Genocide, Homophobia, and Sexual assault

khakipantsofsex's review

emotional reflective

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cancer, Death, Car accident, and War

Minor: Animal death, Drug use, Homophobia, Racism, and Suicide

bashsbooks's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

The hype around Ocean Vuong's poetry is well-earned. I recommend reading these poems aloud.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Grief, Death of parent, and War

Moderate: Death, Homophobia, Racism, Suicide, Violence, and Xenophobia

Minor: Car accident

fengxin's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Cancer, Drug use, Hate crime, Homophobia, Mental illness, Racism, Suicide, Violence, Xenophobia, Car accident, Death of parent, and War

Moderate: Animal death