Reviews tagging 'Child abuse'

Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel

47 reviews

blackberryjambaby's review

emotional informative mysterious reflective sad slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, Adult/minor relationship, Toxic relationship, Homophobia, Infidelity, Outing, Suicide, Car accident, Pedophilia, and Racial slurs

Moderate: Blood, Child abuse, Grief, Medical content, Alcohol, Emotional abuse, and Gore

pobi's review

challenging dark emotional sad slow-paced

3.75

It was very good, and relatively thought provoking but I didn't really love it. Then again, memoir are not often my favourite, and neither are sad books. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Death of parent, Homophobia, Car accident, Death, and Suicide

Minor: Child abuse and Adult/minor relationship

raincloudwrites's review

dark emotional funny reflective medium-paced

5.0

The most well-crafted autobiography I've ever read. It doesn't shy away from harsh realities for a moment. The amount of parallels Bechdel recognizes in her own life to tie events together makes this a unique and clever read. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Death of parent, and Child abuse

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship and Car accident

suprconman99's review

dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

5.0

A harrowing, at times devastating memoir that is deftly propelled by Bechdel’s literary wit. Her ability to find the universality in a story not everyone will immediately relate to is magic, and her willingness to excise EVERY shadowy corner of her childhood is both painful and courageous. A moving, compassionate reflection on Bechdel’s deeply flawed, haunted father, and on the relationships between parents and children more broadly — the sometimes unnerving, sometimes edifying ways in which we come to understand each other, not in terms of parent-child, but as people.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Child abuse

jrowe93's review

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Death, Death of parent, and Suicide

Moderate: Sexual content

Minor: Child abuse

cc24680's review

dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, Medical content, Suicide, and Death of parent

Moderate: Cursing, Homophobia, Adult/minor relationship, Injury/Injury detail, Child abuse, Mental illness, Physical abuse, and Car accident

vurren's review

challenging dark informative sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Toxic relationship, Suicide, Death of parent, Death, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Lesbophobia, Physical abuse, Sexism, Pedophilia, and Domestic abuse

Minor: Homophobia, Dysphoria, and Mental illness

aniglen's review against another edition

Found it very bleak. The literary references went over my head. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Homophobia, Suicide, and Child abuse

annabunce's review

challenging dark emotional reflective tense fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Grief, Adult/minor relationship, Toxic relationship, Suicide, Sexual harassment, Pedophilia, Mental illness, Infidelity, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Child abuse and Domestic abuse

tiernanhunter's review against another edition

dark emotional funny reflective fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, Car accident, Suicide, Grief, and Mental illness

Moderate: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Domestic abuse, Homophobia, and Physical abuse