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Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Mental illness, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Blood, Grief, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Alcohol
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i think cleo is deeply relatable for anyone who's suffered with depression, emotional abuse and/or traumatic childhoods. i really do wish the best for her and i wish she had a truly supportive group of people around her.
as a lot of other people mentioned, it feels as though theres no resolution to a lot of the conflicts. its reslly frustrating but i think its quite realistic. a lot of times in life, you dont get the closure you want or deserve. life just keeps moving and you have to find your own ways of accepting the unjustness of it all.
key highlight is to simply avoid men like frank. even if he does change, it is not worth it at all. i wish there were stronger female characters but maybe thats the point. to highlight if there were stronger female characters and stronger friendship bonds, a lot of the context could have been avoided.
** spoilers below **
i dont think frank deserved happiness with eleanor, not after everything he did to cleo and moved on with eleanor without reconciling with cleo. but its realistic for a man to be what you need him to be only after you left him. and its frustrating and raw and painful for him to have moved on quicker even if he doesnt deserve it. but also pisses me off that eleanor could do that to a fellow woman. her telling frank to go to rome felt so virtue signalling. a lot of people say the feminism themes in the book come off as performative and i dont know how intentional the book really was meant to me but it feels intentional because i think in reality, people are very performative in their actions. i also think the performative part highlights the difficulties of abusive relationships and toxic power dynamics.
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Moderate: Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Forced institutionalization, Medical content, Grief
Minor: Dementia
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Moderate: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Sexual content
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Moderate: Emotional abuse
Graphic: Alcoholism, Child death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Suicide, Death of parent