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mscalls's review
challenging
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.25
Content Warnings
Graphic: Alcohol, Colonisation, Toxic relationship, Death, Drug use, Pregnancy, Toxic friendship, Violence, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Cursing, Medical trauma, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Grief, Medical content, Drug abuse, Racism, Vomit, Addiction, and Child death
marywahlmeierbracciano's review
challenging
funny
sad
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Morgan Talty’s debut collection is enchanting, with stories that follow the same people and the same places amidst shifts in role and experience along a nonlinear timeline. On a Penobscot reservation, a young boy gradually grows up, his perspective countered in other stories by that of himself in early adulthood. Talty’s stories are made of connection and play, survival and addiction, softness, danger. They explore that which is inherited, that which is inevitable, that which can be changed, that which cannot. They are often humorous and often sad, and they are brimming with life.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Drug abuse and Addiction
Moderate: Racism, Pregnancy, Grief, Dementia, Death, Child death, Car accident, Alcoholism, Violence, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Death of parent, Blood, Alcohol, and Miscarriage
Minor: Animal death, Sexual violence, Pedophilia, and Vomit
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