Coin Locker Babies
Book • 1980 • Drama
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One of the main characters is raped by older men and women multiple times, including a detailed flashback of his first encounter with an older man when he is only 13.
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Both main characters are molested/sexually assaulted by older men. (C7, C9)
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A main character vomits multiple times, either due to intoxication or from nerves. (C9, C12)
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As children, the two main characters are subjected to ineffective therapy which only worsens their trauma as they age.
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Is there excessive gore?
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The deaths of the main characters' biological mothers are graphic and brutal.
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Is a minor sexualized?
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One of the main characters is a minor but is depicted as a hustler.
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One of the main characters attempts to slit his wrist during a psychotic break.
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A main character slices off the tip of his tongue in an attempt to improve his voice. The same character later attempts to commit suicide by cutting his wrist.
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Is there domestic violence?
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Are there incestuous relationships?
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Are there homophobic slurs?
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The f-slur, alongside other pejorative terms such as "queer" and "fairy", are used regarding one of the main characters.
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Is there shaving/cutting?
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C33
A main character cuts his wrist during a suicide attempt.
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Is a baby stillborn?
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A main character buries a dead (likely stillborn) baby inside a box.
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Is there ableist language or behavior?
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A lot of side characters act dismissively or aggressively toward a main character showing signs of mental instability.
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Is a child abandoned by a parent?
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The premise surrounds the two main characters' struggles after being abandoned and placed into coin lockers by their mothers.
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Is a mentally ill person violent?
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A main character begins to show signs of psychosis due to stress and trauma; he later attempts to kill his lover (though she survives). At the end of the book, he is drugged by an airborne psychoactive substance and brutally attacks his biological mother.
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Is there a large age gap?
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One of the main characters' relationships with another is rather problematic, as he is only 17 while she is 38 by the time they marry.
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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
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Is someone gaslighted?
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A main character is gaslighted by another into dismissing his trauma and being seen as "spoiled". (C7, C12)
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Is there gun violence?
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One of the secondary characters often has an interest in causing harm with guns, while one of the main characters kills his mother with a shotgun.
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Is someone drugged?
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A tertiary character and a main character are intoxicated by a psychoactive substance and proceed to act violent toward others.
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Does a parent die?
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Both the main characters' biological mothers (and their foster mother) die.
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Does a woman get slapped?
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Does a pregnant person die?
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A secondary character is stabbed while pregnant, but survives and is hospitalized. Her fate is left unclear after Tokyo is mass-drugged. However, a very minor character is also violently attacked while pregnant and is possibly left for dead.
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Does the abused become the abuser?
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Is there bisexual cheating?
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One of the main characters, who is bisexual, is mentioned to have slept with multiple other women after marrying his lover.
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Is there addiction?
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One of the main characters begins to abuse sleeping pills.
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Does someone cheat?
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One of the main characters cheats on his wife with several other women.
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Does the black guy die first?
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Characters that are stated to be black or depicted as dark-skinned don't play a notable role.
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Are there snakes?
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The two main characters are scared off by a snake when they enter the abandoned mines.
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Are there abortions?
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A passing mention is made by a cop regarding the main character suggesting an abortion. Abortions are also mentioned by certain characters who are suspects of the ones who abandoned him.
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Is there a hospital scene?
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The main characters are frequently taken to a hospital in order to go through audiovisual in-utero therapy and hypnosis.
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Are there babies or unborn children?
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There are multiple mentions of how the main characters suffered as babies once they were abandoned; a main character buries a dead baby inside a box; a secondary character later becomes pregnant and is stabbed, but survives.
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One of the main characters plan on using a psychoactive substance that induces aggression and psychosis to mass-drug Tokyo in a terrorist attack.
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Does someone become unconscious?
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A main character passes out from exhaustion after failing to get help for his bleeding wrist.
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Are there mannequins?
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A mannequin is briefly depicted in a paragraph when the main character is sent to an institution.
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Is there a mental institution scene?
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One of the main characters is sent to a mental institution, forcibly restrained, and threatened with lobotomization. He eventually escapes.
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Does someone suffer from PTSD?
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The two main character show signs of PTSD from their newborn abandonment and subsequent trauma.
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Does it have a sad ending?
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Both main characters survive: but one succeeds in a terrorist attack that mass-drugs Tokyo while the other manages to locate the sound he heard as a child but is left mentally shattered.
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Is there a dead animal?
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A main character finds a gored dog in an deserted Tokyo.
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