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Faltas: Letters to Everyone in My Hometown Who Isn't My Rapist by Cecilia Gentili

1 review

amylureads's review

dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring sad tense fast-paced

4.5

This book is deeply affecting and brilliant. It is epistolary, each chapter is a letter addressed to a woman in the writer's small hometown of Gálvez, Argentina, some of whom she loved, some despised, many who knew she was being sexually abused as a child and who opted for various reasons to protect the status quo. On the level of language, this book is brilliant. Gentili describes the most difficult topics without shame and in clear detail, uncovering the reasons for her actions and relationships while indicting class-conscious conservative poor Catholic society. Triggers abound but this is absolutely worth reading if one can. ♥️🖤

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Sexual violence, Pedophilia, Abandonment, Toxic friendship, Domestic abuse, Homophobia, Transphobia, Rape, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Bullying, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Infidelity and Mental illness