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Violence
Barely any
No violence; the loss of everyone he's ever loved across four centuries
Language
Barely any
Mild adult language
Sexual Content
Barely any
Adult romantic relationships across different eras; restrained
Substance Use
Barely any
None
Emotional Intensity
A lot
The accumulated grief of outliving everyone you love; the psychological cost of immortality
What this book is about
Tom Hazard, a history teacher with a rare condition that slows his aging, has lived through four centuries of human history—and is beginning to feel the weight of all those lifetimes and losses. Matt Haig's novel is a meditation on grief, memory, and the desire to simply live in the present.
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