Reviews tagging 'Abandonment'
What My Mother and I Don't Talk About: Fifteen Writers Break the Silence by Michele Filgate
3 reviews
samanthajore's review against another edition
4.5
I don't know what I was expecting when I went into this book but whatever I was expecting this book blew away all my expectations. Throughout the different essays multiple authors went into their way of breaking free from the trauma they were put through when they were younger. The different stories all showed different perspectives of how trauma changes people and how it manifests.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Gaslighting, Eating disorder, Death of parent, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, and Abandonment
adeliab's review against another edition
emotional
hopeful
informative
reflective
medium-paced
3.5
Content Warnings
Graphic: Alcoholism, Abandonment, Child abuse, Violence, Toxic relationship, and Mental illness
Moderate: Death of parent, Sexual violence, Pedophilia, and Ableism
Minor: Pregnancy
meemawreads's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
inspiring
medium-paced
4.0
I hesitated to start 2022 with a post about a downer, but that’s not really what this book is. It contains immense pain - warnings for many mentions of suicidal ideation, substance use, and many kinds of abuse - but it also contains immense healing. Each person who contributed to this collection did hard healing work in order to be able to write about these estrangements and catastrophes. There’s also immense love and forgiveness in them.
We put mothers on this pedestal… we make motherhood nearly compulsory but then dehumanize mothers so that if they’re not perfectly nurturing and perfectly selfless and perfectly content in motherhood, they’re monsters. I love the care many of these writers took to show understanding that their moms are just people, too.
I don’t recommend this book generally but specifically: read only if you’re experienced holding strangers’ pain without harm to yourself. Four taters 🥔🥔🥔🥔/🥔🥔🥔🥔🥔
We put mothers on this pedestal… we make motherhood nearly compulsory but then dehumanize mothers so that if they’re not perfectly nurturing and perfectly selfless and perfectly content in motherhood, they’re monsters. I love the care many of these writers took to show understanding that their moms are just people, too.
I don’t recommend this book generally but specifically: read only if you’re experienced holding strangers’ pain without harm to yourself. Four taters 🥔🥔🥔🥔/🥔🥔🥔🥔🥔
Content Warnings
Graphic: Abandonment, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt
Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Grief, and Physical abuse
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