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Violence
Some
Moderate; crime and its aftermath in the legal setting
Language
Barely any
Mild language
Sexual Content
Barely any
Brief adult content
Substance Use
Some
Moderate; the 1960s counterculture and the 1990s world include substance use
Emotional Intensity
A lot
Significant; the psychological weight of how the choices you make when young define everything that follows
What this book is about
Scott Turow's most ambitious novel follows four friends from their politically charged college days in the late 1960s to the legal cases that bring them together in the 1990s — when a judge must rule in a case that involves the people she's loved. Turow writes legal fiction with the literary ambition of a serious novelist, and Laws is his most complex work.
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