The narrator of the book spends little time with her abuser on page, but the trauma of her abuse is a main focus of the book. It is physical but not sexual. She is also actively suicidal from the first page, and the book focuses a lot on her mental state and making decisions that are at least passively suicidal.

There is a suicide by gun that happens on the page. It is sudden but not very graphic, and the next chapter moves quickly on.