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cleo_vii's review against another edition
5.0
Immediate reactions/thoughts: how one's circumstances shape oneself (nurture over nature); whether Maya's experiences were normal in their diverted-ness, or if she was unusually nomadic; the traumas embedded in the families, social customs, and cultures of Black Americans (and liberation in Mexico), as well as in her personal history (pockmarked with darkness that would warrant trigger warnings in the 2020s); the frequent juxtaposition of imagined "success" rather than the reality (e.g., a self-described 'military dietitian' living in a mansion vs a cafeteria cook living in a trailer) delineating cultural worlds (the façade drops with the intrusion of the oppressive culture); and other thoughts but I'm quite tired now.
Maya is, as always, incredible.
Graphic: Racism, Rape, and Sexual assault
Moderate: Alcoholism, Blood, Abandonment, and Alcohol
Minor: Abortion
nvrrrdie's review against another edition
Graphic: Child abuse, Pedophilia, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Suicidal thoughts, Pregnancy, and Abandonment
julia_rose's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, and Abandonment
Moderate: Sexual content
Minor: Suicidal thoughts and War
morningsdaughter's review against another edition
4.0
The audiobook is read by Ms. Angelou herself and her voice is very familiar to my generation.
Graphic: Child abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, and Rape
Moderate: Abandonment
Minor: Gun violence and Murder
Frequent uses of the n-word (by all races), descriptions of racial violence, descriptions of child abuse and sexual assault on a child.wmelissa's review against another edition
2.0
Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Pedophilia, Rape, and Pregnancy
Moderate: Racism, Police brutality, and Abandonment
Minor: Infidelity and Lesbophobia
hjb_128's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Child abuse, Hate crime, Pedophilia, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Lesbophobia, Abandonment, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism
Moderate: Body shaming, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Car accident, Murder, Pregnancy, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail
331bats's review against another edition
4.75
Graphic: Pedophilia, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Xenophobia, Abandonment, and Classism
librarymouse's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Blood, Medical content, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism
Moderate: Fatphobia
Minor: Lesbophobia and Abandonment
leseratte69's review against another edition
4.0
This book is one of its kind as a literary autobiography. As it’s a coming of age story, the chapters seem more like short stories. I found myself getting lost in the detail and so found it harder to be absorbed in the story.
Quotes I found wonderful were:
‘One girl, whose name and face have melted into the years’
‘He was forever dropping slangy terms into his sentences like dumplings in a pot’
‘Bailey was the greatest person in the world. And the fact that he was my brother, my only brother, and I had no sisters to share him with, was such a good fortune that it made me want to live a Christian life just to show God that I was grateful.’
Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Racism, and Sexual assault
Moderate: Abandonment
betag1013's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Ableism, Adult/minor relationship, Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Hate crime, Infidelity, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Xenophobia, Blood, Vomit, Police brutality, Medical content, Grief, Car accident, Murder, Pregnancy, Lesbophobia, Abandonment, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism