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Violence
Some
Multiple deaths in a bus accident; the accident follows an act of racial humiliation
Language
Barely any
Racial slurs used by white characters
Sexual Content
None
No sexual content
Substance Use
None
No substance use
Emotional Intensity
Some
Racial injustice and its consequences; a child witnessing adult cruelty
What this book is about
Jeremy Simms, a white boy in 1930s Mississippi, watches as Black passengers are forced off a crowded bus to make room for white passengers. Minutes later, the bus goes off the bridge. Told from Jeremy's point of view, Taylor's slim novella is a moral reckoning with the casual cruelty of Jim Crow and the randomness of its consequences.
Notes for sensitive readers
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Racial humiliation and bus crash deaths
Racial slurs as historical language
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