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A review by rieviolet
Madri, padri e altri. Appunti sulla mia famiglia reale e letteraria by Siri Hustvedt
Did not finish book. Stopped at 73%.
I started the book without knowing much about it, except that it's a collection of essays. I enjoyed some chapters more focused on the author's family history, on literature and translation, but a lot of them were just so hard to get through. Some of the topics were just not interesting to me personally (art and psychoanalysis), some others were too much specialized for a layperson like me (philosophy and science), and some were just on subjects that I do not enjoy reading about because they usually end up rubbing me the wrong way (parenthood and pregnancy). I tried my best but I'm not keen to keep on reading.
Graphic: Death, Racism, Sexism, Xenophobia, Death of parent, Pregnancy, and Pandemic/Epidemic
Moderate: Mental illness, Transphobia, Blood, Antisemitism, Islamophobia, Medical content, Cannibalism, Murder, and Classism
Minor: Ableism, Animal death, Cancer, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Pedophilia, Racial slurs, Rape, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicide, Excrement, Colonisation, and War