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Violence
None
Mild references to war and death
Language
Barely any
Mild language
Sexual Content
Barely any
Brief sexual references
Substance Use
None
Social drinking
Emotional Intensity
Some
Nihilistic satire about human evolution and the nature of intelligence
What this book is about
Vonnegut's 1985 novel is narrated by a ghost one million years after the world ends. A group of cruise ship tourists stranded on the Galapagos Islands become the ancestors of all future humanity. Dark satire with mild content. For older teens and adults.
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Dark satire about human extinction
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