Reviews tagging 'Eating disorder'

Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth by Warsan Shire

5 reviews

veereads11's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Murder, Rape, Sexual content, Xenophobia, War, Violence, Abandonment, Death, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Fire/Fire injury, Incest, Sexism, and Sexual assault

ridaaamina's review against another edition

dark emotional sad fast-paced

5.0

I've never read anything by Warsan Shire that hasn't made me stop for a minute to catch my breath. teaching my mother how to give birth is a devastating collection of poems about surviving and remembering sexual assault, the things about womanhood we don't talk about often enough, unfaithful men, colonisation, losing your home country and being unwelcome through no fault of your own. It is beautiful, honest and heart-wrenching from beginning to end.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence and Sexual assault

Moderate: Sexual content and Physical abuse

Minor: Eating disorder and Alcoholism

alisonfaith426's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad fast-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Violence, Eating disorder, Fire/Fire injury, Sexual assault, and War

Moderate: Grief, Infidelity, Physical abuse, Medical trauma, and Torture

Minor: Death, Terminal illness, Cancer, Alcohol, and Blood

venetiana's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Death, Blood, Murder, and Cancer

Minor: Grief, Infidelity, War, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Misogyny, Murder, Pedophilia, Medical content, Sexual harassment, Xenophobia, Mental illness, Death of parent, and Racism

lief_'s review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Domestic abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Death, Eating disorder, Physical abuse, Sexual violence, Violence, and Xenophobia