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Violence
Some
Threat of violence; confrontation; a fixer's methods
Language
Some
Moderate language; Mosley's New York register
Sexual Content
Barely any
Mild
Substance Use
Barely any
Moderate; the culture Leonid moves through
Emotional Intensity
A lot
Strong; the political history of racial identity in America; what it means to know you have Black ancestry and whether it must change how you see yourself; Leonid's moral compass
What this book is about
A Leonid McGill novella: a man asks McGill to deliver a letter to a Southern white family that will change their lives — they have Black ancestry they don't know about. The threat comes from a fixer who wants to make sure the letter never arrives. Mosley's compressed novella is about race, identity, and what knowledge costs.
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