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Graphic: Death, Violence, Suicide attempt
Moderate: Confinement, Domestic abuse, Miscarriage, Sexual content, Pregnancy, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail
Questions of inherent nature, self-determination, fate, and true affection are threaded throughout this epic tale.
Moderate: Death, Sexual content, Violence, Medical content, Murder, Pregnancy
Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Miscarriage
Moderate: Violence
Minor: Sexual content
Minor: Chronic illness, Confinement, Death, Drug use, Self harm, Sexual content, Violence, Grief, Murder, Injury/Injury detail
Graphic: Sexism
Moderate: Sexual content, Xenophobia
Minor: Miscarriage, Suicide attempt
I am not incredibly into the historical genre but this story plays to several of my specific interests. I very much enjoyed learning about the not-oft utilized myth creatures of golems and jinn and appreciated how thoroughly grounded in cultural contexts the author aspires to present them. The author seems to take great care giving detail to the Jewish and Syrian communities, both New and Old World, featured in the story, and every character is unique and grounded. I also deeply appreciate that main characters Ahmad and Chava, while not exactly being *not* romantically interested in each other, have factors to their relationship outside of romantic intrigue and are allowed to organically come to value and enjoy each other's company rather than being smashed together out of obligation of being the male and female leads. In closing, this is a lovingly and meticulously crafted book. Slow as it is, I would not begrudge someone being impatient with it but I greatly appreciated my time with it.
Graphic: Chronic illness, Death, Miscarriage, Suicide attempt, Murder
Moderate: Confinement, Mental illness, Violence, Death of parent, Pregnancy
Minor: Drug use, Sexual content, Cultural appropriation, Sexual harassment, Classism
Graphic: Death, Excrement, Medical content, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Miscarriage, Sexual content, Suicide attempt, Pregnancy
Minor: Slavery
The Golem and The Jinni is the kind of magical realism that lets you forget your grounding in reality. Wecker's characters are familiar, not in the sense that they are retellings of known "characters," but in their easy ability to fit into the world as one has known it. Yes, there are magical creatures and spells in this world, but life is life, and the experience of it persists.
Graphic: Suicidal thoughts
Moderate: Death, Slavery, Grief, Suicide attempt, Death of parent
Minor: Domestic abuse, Infertility, Miscarriage, Self harm, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Xenophobia, Police brutality, Medical trauma, Murder, Pregnancy, Abandonment
Moderate: Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, Suicide attempt, Murder, Pregnancy
Minor: Alcoholism, Body horror, Blood, Death of parent, Alcohol, Classism
Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Death, Violence, Death of parent, Murder
Moderate: Misogyny, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Medical content, Religious bigotry, Suicide attempt, Pregnancy, Sexual harassment
Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Terminal illness, Xenophobia, Blood, Grief