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Graphic: Ableism, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Medical content, Trafficking, Grief, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail
Speaking of JB, fuck him. Fuck him for feeding into the negative Black stereotypes. Why wouldn't he be proud of his mom? Why not correct people on their assumptions? He really comes across as someone incredibly detached from his identity but wants all the perks of being Black. He doesn't get to let people make assumptions, not correct them, and then clear it up right before his friend comes over—because he knows it's not right and he knows his aunts and mother and grandmother wouldn't be okay with that. My question is why did he do that? Every time he opened his mouth or every time we got a chapter of his POV, my eyes rolled back in my skull and I spent my time instead counting the grooves in my brain matter.
Everything from the dense, verbose, detail-padded writing to the selfish, holier-than-thou dramatic-ass characters is a huge book turn off for me.
Graphic: Ableism, Adult/minor relationship, Cancer, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Death, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Vomit, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Car accident, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, Dysphoria, Injury/Injury detail, Classism
Moderate: Biphobia, Body shaming, Cursing, Gore, Panic attacks/disorders, Medical content, Medical trauma, Gaslighting, Alcohol
Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Suicide, Medical trauma
Moderate: Ableism, Vomit, Car accident, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Infidelity
Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Vomit, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Ableism, Addiction, Biphobia, Body shaming, Bullying, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Blood, Vomit, Car accident, Acephobia/Arophobia, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, Dysphoria
Minor: Ableism, Addiction, Body shaming, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Dementia, Trafficking, Grief, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail
Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Grief, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail
Graphic: Body shaming, Cursing, Death, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Vomit, Grief, Suicide attempt, Fire/Fire injury, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail
Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Terminal illness, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Medical content, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Grief, Medical trauma, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail
However, these characters continued to do the best they could with what they had. Watching them learn to trust each other again and again, watching relationships rupture and repair, watching them choose each other was really what kept me reading this book.
Yanagihara switches POVs often without explicitly telling the reader who the chapter/section is focusing on, which requires the readers to really get to know each character, and, at times, be okay with not knowing (yet)who is being described.
I think this is a book that I'll come back to and notice something different, or have a different takeaway, or connect with differently in different stages of my life.
Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Medical content, Trafficking, Grief, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Ableism, Addiction, Chronic illness, Drug abuse, Eating disorder, Blood, Kidnapping, Car accident, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting
Minor: Child death
Graphic: Ableism, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Gore, Infidelity, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Terminal illness, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Dementia, Grief, Medical trauma, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Dysphoria, Injury/Injury detail