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Graphic: Alcoholism, Cancer, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Hate crime, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Terminal illness, Torture, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail, Classism
Moderate: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Infertility, Police brutality, Abortion
Graphic: Death, Rape, Violence, War
Moderate: Alcoholism
Graphic: Death, Torture, Violence, Abandonment, War
Graphic: Alcoholism, Body horror, Child abuse, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Abandonment, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail
Graphic: Grief, Murder
Moderate: Alcoholism, Body horror, Death, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Blood, Abortion, Death of parent
Minor: Bullying, Cancer, Child death, Chronic illness, Confinement, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Violence, Pregnancy, Colonisation, War
Graphic: Death, Violence, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Abandonment, War, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Alcoholism, Rape, Abortion, Colonisation
Minor: Cancer
Graphic: Death, Violence, Grief, Abandonment, War
Moderate: Bullying, Racism, Rape, Death of parent, Sexual harassment
Minor: Alcoholism, Cancer, Child death, Abortion
Graphic: Alcoholism, Child death, Death, Physical abuse, Rape, Suicide, Torture, War
Graphic: Alcoholism, Body horror, Cancer, Death, Gore, Physical abuse, Rape, Terminal illness, Torture, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Abandonment, War
Moderate: Child abuse, Child death, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts
Minor: Infertility, Toxic friendship
The Mountains Sing is a story told by two interwoven voices. There’s a young girl in the 1970s at the close of the Vietnam war, who sees the grownups coming back from the front diminished, both mentally and physically, and who wonders if her parents will ever be back. In the meantime, she lives with her grandmother. The second part of the novel is set in the 1950s, just after the First Indochina War, when it’s hard to figure out whether one should flee the French or the Communists more, because both want her dead. It’s told by the grandmother, who tells her granddaughter what happened to their family twenty years prior.
I think it might be the first time that every chapter has me excited (?) for the next chapter in this voice. Both storylines were equally compelling and worked so well together. It was so good to read a book that wasn’t just about the Americans, but also about resisting the French and about having the hardest time “choosing sides” in a war that nobody wants to wage.
You can also read this review on my personal blog.
Graphic: Death, War
Moderate: Alcoholism