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Violence
Barely any
Suicide; ambient threat
Language
Barely any
Strong language
Sexual Content
Barely any
Brief sexual content
Substance Use
Barely any
Social drinking
Emotional Intensity
A lot
Existential anguish; grief; the weight of inherited guilt
What this book is about
McCarthy's 2022 novel follows Bobby Western, a deep-sea salvage diver haunted by his father's work on the Manhattan Project and his sister's suicide. Interspersed with hallucinatory visions experienced by that sister. Difficult, philosophical, and dark. For mature adults.
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Suicide
Philosophical darkness
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