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Violence
Some
War violence; racial violence; implied sexual violence in medical experiments
Language
Barely any
Mild language
Sexual Content
Barely any
Medical exploitation; implied abuse
Substance Use
None
No substance use
Emotional Intensity
A lot
Racial trauma; the psychological cost of war and segregation
What this book is about
Morrison's 2012 novella follows Frank Money, a Korean War veteran who returns to the Jim Crow South to save his sister Cee from a white doctor using her as a medical subject. Stark, sparse, and devastating. Features racial violence, war trauma, and the medical exploitation of Black women. For adults.
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Racial violence
Medical exploitation
War trauma
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