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Violence
None
No violence
Language
None
No profanity
Sexual Content
None
No sexual content
Substance Use
None
No substance use
Emotional Intensity
Some
Moderate emotional weight: a terminal illness, a teen contemplating suicide, and the longing for time create gentle emotional stakes
What this book is about
Father Time — the first human to ever measure time — is banished to a cave for thousands of years, forced to hear the ceaseless pleas of every person who wishes for more time or begs for it to stop. When he is finally released, he is sent to Earth to help two people: a dying old man who wants to live forever using cryonics, and a teenage girl who wants time to stop. Mitch Albom's brief parable is warm, spiritually accessible, and characteristically gentle in its examination of how we value the hours we're given.
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Teen suicide attempt as a plot element — handled with care and without graphic detail
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