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roxymaybe's review
4.0
Meandering and rambling, but purposeful, to communicate the uncertainty of memories. Well executed.
momreaderh's review against another edition
slow-paced
0.5
This was a truly bizarrely written book. Maybe someone else will like it, but not me.
jordydw's review against another edition
1.0
I didn't like this book because of the writing style, it was very different almost like your grandfather telling you a story. He pretty much was kidnapped and had a very chaotic upbringing. CPS needed to be involved forreal. I don't recommend this book, it seemed very repetitive.
nickel_books's review against another edition
challenging
dark
reflective
medium-paced
4.5
When a poet writes a memoir of their own kidnapping, beautiful language and rhythm is to be expected. An added treat was the conscious interrogation of memory and its impact. How it can make it difficult to even tell our own stories.
theeuphoriczat's review against another edition
3.0
Pulling the chariot of the sun is a vulnerable memoir told in what feels like memory slips or a daze, Shane recalls a compulsive account of growing up as a mixed race kid who was kidnapped and raised by his white supremacist grandparents. He describes the disconnect he felt from both the White and Black community and the way he upbringing shaped his early view of the world. This included how his blackness was even policed from him and made out to be the worst thing about him.
Overall, I learnt a lot from reading this book. It discussed mental health, dissociation, white supremacy and the tireless search for truth and pursuit of what and who we love.
“... I wanted to look sad and feel sad, that's all I thought depression was, extended sadness, because I wanted anybody who saw me and anybody who spoke to me to
"Wow, he is depressed," because to be sad seemed to me an act of notable rebellion, and to be depressed seemed to me a state of notable revolution, possibly because I was raised by white people who had been teens in the optimistic, for white people, 1950s."
Thanks to Canongate Books for making this book available to me.
Overall, I learnt a lot from reading this book. It discussed mental health, dissociation, white supremacy and the tireless search for truth and pursuit of what and who we love.
“... I wanted to look sad and feel sad, that's all I thought depression was, extended sadness, because I wanted anybody who saw me and anybody who spoke to me to
"Wow, he is depressed," because to be sad seemed to me an act of notable rebellion, and to be depressed seemed to me a state of notable revolution, possibly because I was raised by white people who had been teens in the optimistic, for white people, 1950s."
Thanks to Canongate Books for making this book available to me.
alexisgarcia's review against another edition
emotional
reflective
sad
fast-paced
4.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Kidnapping, Gaslighting, Grief, Racism, and Child abuse