The Terrible

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From the poet behind bone, a lyrical memoir part prose, part verse about coming of age, uncovering the cruelty and the beauty of the wider world, and redemption through self discovery and the bonds of family My little brother and I saw a unicorn in the garden in the late nineties.I m telling you Neither one of us made it up it was as real as anything else The Terrible, Yrsa Daley Ward s brave, raw, lyrical memoir that captures the surreal magic and incredible discomfort of adolescence, burgeoning sexuality, rootlessness, and connection Through emotional snapshots that span from her adolescence through her early twenties, each brought to life in Yrsa s signature style of open white spaces and stirring, singular lines, The Terrible evokes the pain and thrill of girlhood, as well as what it means to discover the fear and power that come with being a woman With a sharp eye and a rare talent for mining the beauty and the sorrow in the everyday, Yrsa recounts her remarkable life growing up as one of the only black children in a poor, white, working class town navigating the extreme Christianity of her family inquiring after her paternity moving through phases of addiction and sexual encounters and ultimately finding her place in her family and in life. Download The Terrible – kino-fada.fr Pull yourself together You are an African, the most magical kind of human there is I knew that this book would break my heart and it did It s a memoir of Yrsa dealing with life s challenges understatement and it is raw, brutal and honest There are four parts to this book, each section exploring a different stage in the authors life, the tone of the book and the language changing with it and echoing its time frame Thought it is poetry, the writing does an incredible job of weaving those p Pull yourself together ...I didn t find this as fresh or original as I hoped Daley Ward creates a dark memoir of alienation, depression and a downward spiral of drink, drugs and sex, occasionally lit by flares of imagination and sparse moments of love and connection.But I found this over written in places, and the free verse form gimmicky with random line breaks and occasional right margin justification which have no effect on meaning or interpretation There s so much white space on each page that this is a speedy read I didn t find this as fresh or original as I hoped Daley Ward creates a dark memoir of alienation,...I knew this would be great but wow This memoir in verse is stunningly candid, often invoking painful memories that highlight what seems to be universal pain and trauma that black children inherit from their parents The truth of this touched me while I read because Yrsa Daley Ward does not shy away from the subject she points a finger at her mother s parenting, her grandparents religious strictness, the stream of men who treated her as a sexual object, and consequently, her foray into being a I knew this would be great but wow This memoir in verse is stunningly candid, often invoking painful memories that highlight what seems to be universal pain and trauma that black children inherit from their parents The truth of this touched me while I read because Yrsa...Disclaimer I won this book for my BookTubeAThon Book Dominoes Challenge woop woop , I wasn t asked to review it but since I got it for free and wouldn t have picked it up on my own I think it s important to mention that I always feel like the ultimate asshole when I rate biographies and memoirs low because who am I to judge another person s life or how a person decided to share their experiences with the world, yet here we are And I feel like a douche saying it but The Terrible was pre Disclaimer I won this book for my BookTubeAThon Book Domi...Beautiful, raw and honest.A few months ago I read Bone, and the only thing I had to say at first was that I so badly wanted to hear the poetry spoken out loud Then, at the beginning of June, I actually got the opportunity to see Yrsa, as her book tour for The Terrible had a stop in my city Listening to her speak was as beautiful and as powerful as I had imagined, and walking out of that bookshop, I felt so inspired Since that day I ve had a copy of The Terrible, but have been waiting for the right time to read it Thi A few months ago I read Bone, and the only thing I had to say at first was that I so badly wanted to hear the poetry spoken out lo...I love Yrsa Daley Ward I love the way she visualises her world I love the way her brain works, and the way she puts pen to paper Her work on instagram is gorgeous, but this, this was something otherworldly altogether To make it clear, I have not yet read Bone, so this is the first full body of work I have read by Daley Ward and it stunned me Her command over language, her effective and simple way of telling an explosive story, it s all there All of it I wept for her in this memoir I foun I love Yrsa Daley Ward I love the way she visualises her world I love the way her brain works, and the way she puts pen to p...This book is so terribly good, it carries Yrsa s essence from the onset to the end It is one dark tale, with glimpses of lights here and there, but so dark and powerful, Yrsa can t help but capture my attention with her story.To me this memoir is one of a kind because it is truly a piece of art, it s like reading a...4.5 stars An emotional sucker punch Don t you know you re one of the lucky one shouts the terrible Don t you know I ve got you, you ungrateful, ungrateful creature You wretch Don t you know those dark times kept you stronger thus sayeth the terrible Don t you know without me you would be just another girl with an everyday life and an almost house always under construction and a man you tolerate and don t really love and a father you met but who stopped you from doing anything and seei 4.5 stars An emotional sucker punch Don t you know you re one of the lucky one shouts the terrible Don t you know I ve got you, you ungrateful, ungrateful creature You wretch Don t you know those dark times kept you stronger thus sayeth the terrible Don t you know without me you would be just another girl with an everyday life and an almost house always under construction and a man you tolerate and don t really love and a father you met but who stopped you from doing anything and seeing the world, don t you know you d be a boring woman with bills and a horrible job and wrinkles around her eyes and babies and babies and a mortgage and savings and boring sex or no sex and a lukewarm life, DON T YOU KNOW I FUCKING KEPT YOU SAFE...Incredible memoir that feelslike verse than prose So sad and gorgeous and compelling.

The Terrible
  • English
  • 04 March 2017
  • Kindle Edition
  • 224 pages
  • Yrsa Daley-Ward
  • The Terrible