Zami: A New Spelling of My Name
Book • 1982
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The author's two pet cats died after eating turpentine while left unattended. This happens in chapter 30, around pages 237-238 if you'd like to avoid it.
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Is there a dead animal?
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Also, the author recounts finding the bodies of her two dead kittens
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The author put something to induce vomiting in her soda because her roommate kept drinking it
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The author refers to her parents beating her when she was a child as abuse
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The author purposely pours boiling hot water on her hand at one point
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Gennie's father was neglectful and physically abusive toward her
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Is there a hanging?
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The landlord of the apartment the author and her family moved into hanged himself due to “despondency over the fact that he finally had to rent to Negroes”
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Are there fat jokes?
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A classmate teases Audre for being fat
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Is there ableist language or behavior?
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Use of the word retarded. Children punished or ridiculed for not understanding a school lesson
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Are there bugs?
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Cockroaches
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Is there a mental institution scene?
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No scenes take place in a mental institution, but Muriel was institutionalized before the events of the book, and she checks herself into a psych ward by the end.
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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
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Gennie plans to kill herself
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Does a parent die?
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Audre's father
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Are there usages of the n-word?
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Several times. Audre's partner Muriel, who is white, even says that all lesbians are treated as niggers
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Does the abused become the abuser?
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Is electro-therapy used?
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Audre's partner Muriel was institutionalized before the events of the book and given shock treatments for schizophrenia. The actual shock treatment is not described, only the way Muriel felt about it.
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Does a woman get slapped?
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Does someone cheat?
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The author mentions several partners who cheat on her
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Does someone have cancer?
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For a time, the author works in a highly toxic factory whose chemicals are found to be carcinogenic. This isn't covered in the book, but the author died of cancer decades later. The author meets someone in Mexico called Eudora who survived breast cancer, but had a mastectomy.
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Is there a hospital scene?
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The author visits her friend in the hospital after the latter consumes rat poison. There are portions of the book where she is working in a hospital
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Does someone spit?
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White adults spit on the protagonist when she was a child
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One person's boyfriend sells her into forced sex work. She later escapes.
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Marijuana use
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Does someone attempt suicide?
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The author's high school friend commits suicide by consuming rat poison
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Does a kid die?
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A classmate dies of tuberculosis
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Is there addiction?
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Several characters throughout the book suffer addiction of some kind
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Are there incestuous relationships?
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Is there sexual content?
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The author discusses her curiosity about sex as an adolescent and teenager. There are a few described sex scenes
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Is a mentally ill person violent?
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Muriel, particularly after she and Audre break up
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Are there abortions?
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The author recounts having a home abortion. There is a lot of detail.
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Are any teeth damaged?
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A character has all the teeth pulled out of one side if her upper jaw at the dentist
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