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Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Gore, Miscarriage, Pedophilia, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Slavery, Torture, Cannibalism, Death of parent, Pregnancy
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Physical abuse, Rape, Violence, Dementia, Grief, Cannibalism, Death of parent, Pregnancy
Minor: Slavery, Torture, Trafficking, Car accident
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Confinement, Genocide, Cannibalism, Murder
Moderate: Body horror, Torture, Blood, Trafficking, Pregnancy
Minor: Child death
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Death, Gore, Torture, Violence, Blood, Cannibalism
Moderate: Child death, Cursing, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Dementia, Grief, Death of parent, Classism
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Infertility, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Trafficking, Cannibalism, Abortion, Murder, Injury/Injury detail
Graphic: Body horror, Confinement, Death, Gore, Sexism, Torture, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Cannibalism, Medical trauma, Murder, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Child death, Racism, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Classism
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Death, Gore, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, Blood, Trafficking, Cannibalism, Murder
Moderate: Infertility, Terminal illness, Torture, Dementia, Death of parent, Pregnancy
All that having been said, nothing I’ve read before could have quite prepared me for this book. It’s gruesome and unforgiving. It shines a light into the gnarly pointed teeth of humanity and invites the reader to be appalled not only by the actions of characters but by the mirrored image of their own actions being thrown back at them. All the characters are irredeemable in the best way. Even Marcos is truly vile to his very core—not nearly to vile as his sister, his vendors, or his clients, but nevertheless despicable. If the book as a whole is a nauseating descent into the darkness of the human psyche, then the last chapter is like the final push that lands you on your face, breaking your nose and any inclination towards hope you may have had.
I’m not sure I’ll ever reread this book, but I am glad to have read it.
Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Genocide, Gore, Infertility, Infidelity, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Kidnapping, Cannibalism, Medical trauma, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Classism
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Genocide, Gore, Infidelity, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Trafficking, Grief, Cannibalism, Murder, Pregnancy, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Suicide
Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Death, Genocide, Gore, Infertility, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Medical content, Trafficking, Grief, Cannibalism, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Injury/Injury detail, Classism
Minor: Drug abuse, Drug use, Dementia