Reviews tagging 'Suicidal thoughts'

Łzy pustyni by Damien Lewis, Halima Bashir

3 reviews

somelesbianwriter's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad slow-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child abuse, Genocide, Gun violence, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal death, Incest, and Colonisation

Minor: Adult/minor relationship and Deportation

writingcaia's review against another edition

dark sad tense medium-paced

5.0

I don’t recommend it if you are those who prefer not to know the terrible things happening in the world, or that can be triggered by the events portrayed in this memoir.
This is but one story that tells of the genocide in Darfur of the Black Muslims.
It starts with a happy childhood, marked with some difficulty accepting some of the traditions of her people, followed by learning the hate from the Arabic Muslims in school, to becoming a doctor among the political tumult and stories of attacks to villages, to Halima being persecuted by working in a hospital and helping others like her, and all that so many suffered in Darfur, to finally after a long period in the U.K. being granted asylum.

I barely remember this happening, and it’s so horrible to perceive how outside, these people, these stories are just numbers and letters on a newscast, but not anymore, not after this book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Genocide, Hate crime, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Colonisation, War, Classism, and Deportation

betag1013's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Confinement, Death, Genocide, Gun violence, Hate crime, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Vomit, Police brutality, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Medical trauma, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, Sexual harassment, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism