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Violence
Some
Violence of poverty and circumstance including starvation and hardship
Language
None
No profanity
Sexual Content
None
Brief references to prostitution as survival
Substance Use
None
No substance use
Emotional Intensity
A lot
Profound themes of poverty, endurance, the loss of children, and the dignity of a life lived in hardship
What this book is about
A classic of Indian literature in English about a woman's survival through poverty, drought, the loss of children, and the dissolution of traditional life. Violence is the violence of poverty and circumstance. A moving literary work.
Notes for sensitive readers
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Extreme poverty
Child death
Hardship and endurance
Prostitution referenced
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