Rupi Kaur is a Canadian poet who is most famous for her three connecting books. Rupi Kaur comes from a family that had immigrated from India. It is often shown throughout her books as she learns to heal generational trauma.
The healing done in these three books comes from relationship abuse, family problems, self-love and more. The purpose of them is to really learn how to love yourself and others after someone has taught you not to.
These books can get quite graphic when it comes to some of its depictions of sex and abuse. It is recommended for a mature audience.
Milk and honey is the first out of the three books. It has four parts: the hurting, the loving, the breaking, and the healing.
The four parts are exactly how they sound. They follow a story of building yourself up after disappointment and trying to find better and only to have it happen again and trying to grow from that.
The next book is the sun and her flowers. It follows the same type of story as milk and honey.
There is five parts to this book are called: wilting, falling, rooting, rising, and blooming. It is a beautiful metaphor for how sometimes you have to break completely in order to become truly happy.
Home body follows a different structure. It is more about the trauma itself than growing past it. This book is much more detailed than the others and is not for the faint hearted.
Although I highly would recommend home body it should have a trigger warning with it. It could potentially cause some healing setbacks.
An interesting part of Kaur’s writing is that none of it is capitalized, and she rarely uses punctuation. It almost feels like she does this because she had previously not had a voice and these topics are often not talked about lightly.
These books also often have amazing illustrations next them. They are minimal and often dainty.
These images can also be quite graphic. If you were to read these be prepared to what you might see during it or what you might thing or feel afterwards.