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Violence
Barely any
Racial violence; brief danger
Language
Barely any
Mild language
Sexual Content
Barely any
Brief romantic content
Substance Use
None
No substance use
Emotional Intensity
Some
Themes of race, progress, and the idealism of those who believe things can be better
What this book is about
Whitehead's 1999 debut is a brilliant allegory set in a mid-century city where the elevator inspectors are divided between Empiricists and Intuitionists. Lila Mae Watson, the first Black female inspector, investigates a crash. Clean, intelligent, and quietly political. For older teens and adults.
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