raekit 's review for:

Long Bright River by Liz Moore

4.0

dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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Very focused on addiction in the Kensington neighborhood of Philadelphia. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Police brutality, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Abandonment

Moderate: Child abuse, Sexual assault

Minor: Domestic abuse

I don’t think I like the discussion of neonatal withdrawal syndrome. It felt very targeted at parents suffering from addiction and also someone talks about a baby medicated with narcotics as “using.”