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Graphic: Death, Gore, Torture, Violence, Police brutality, Murder
Moderate: Body horror, Confinement, Homophobia, Infidelity, Sexual content
Minor: Drug use, Toxic relationship, Xenophobia, Kidnapping, Fire/Fire injury, Sexual harassment
Graphic: Body horror, Genocide, War
Moderate: Homophobia, Violence, Colonisation
Minor: Suicide, Torture, Police brutality
Graphic: Death, Homophobia, Suicide, Violence, Police brutality, War
Moderate: Torture, Islamophobia
Graphic: Body horror, Confinement, Death, Infidelity, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Police brutality, Car accident, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, War, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Child death, Homophobia, Sexual content, Blood, Grief, Colonisation, Classism
Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Biphobia, Genocide, Blood, Lesbophobia
Graphic: Death, Gore, Homophobia, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Kidnapping, Murder, War, Injury/Injury detail
Graphic: Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gun violence, Homophobia, Physical abuse, Racism, Sexism, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Police brutality, Kidnapping, Religious bigotry
Moderate: Drug use, Infidelity, Alcohol
I found a lot of this book really compelling: the characters, the descriptions of Sri Lanka, the world building of the afterlife. I didn't know anything about Sri Lanka before and it certainly made Sri Lankan '80s politics intriguing.
However, I found the prose quite difficult to follow - I didn't really get into it until about half way through. This is probably in part because it's written in second person, which isn't my personal favourite. I think that the concept of being able to go where your name is spoken was really cool but it resulted in a constant jumping between locations and interactions which was also interspersed with past memories and I found it quite disjointed - it didn't make for easy reading.
Graphic: Gore, Violence, Xenophobia, Police brutality, War
Moderate: Homophobia, Infidelity, Racism
Minor: Suicide, Death of parent
Graphic: Animal death, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Genocide, Gore, Homophobia, Infidelity, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicide, Torture, Blood, Police brutality, Grief, Murder, Alcohol, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail
Graphic: Death, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Racism, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Kidnapping, Grief, Murder, Colonisation, War, Classism
Graphic: Child death, Death, Genocide, Homophobia, Racism, Sexual content, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Police brutality, Grief, Car accident, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, War, Injury/Injury detail, Classism
Moderate: Drug use, Blood, Kidnapping, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Alcohol
Minor: Animal death, Colonisation