The Overstory
Book • 2018 • Reality
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Are animals abused?
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There are ongoing themes of animals affected by climate change and human destruction, but this isn’t described as explicitly as tree destruction
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This book is largely about trees and nature, and animals dying is a part of that
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Cops cut a man’s pants off his body and then pepper spray his genitals repeatedly while the man is chained to a tree. The man is trying to save the tree.
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Is there a dead animal?
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Many, in the context of decomposition and the cycles of life
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Is there pedophilia?
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brief mention of a young woman (age undefined) running off with an english teacher from her (high?) school
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A kid is hit for killing a tree by accident / a parent fractures his kids’ wrist
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Is a minor sexualized?
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no, but there is some mention of kids exploring masturbation
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Is there eye mutilation?
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It’s not permanent damage, but police put pepper spray directly into people’s eyes and nose with a cotton swab
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Is a woman brutalized for spectacle?
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Several characters are brutalized in several ways, some of them are women but some are men as well
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Is someone tortured?
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explicit and multiple times
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Is rape mentioned?
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Multiple times
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Is there genital trauma/mutilation?
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Cops cut a man’s pants off his body and then pepper spray his genitals repeatedly while the man is chained to a tree. The man is trying to save the tree.
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It’s explicitly mentioned among humans but only briefly / the book does talk about some insect mating habits
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Is there domestic violence?
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Does it have a sad ending?
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It has a complicated, hopeful ending where some sad things happen and some happy
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Is there sexual content?
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It’s talked about/implied several times, but it’s always non-graphic/fade-to-black
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Is there autism specific abuse?
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an autistic character is treated poorly/maliciously misunderstood for it by many people in his life
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Are there spiders?
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brief mentions here and there
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Is someone burned alive?
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trees are burned down / bomb gone off and kills someone
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Is there decapitation?
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Mention briefly
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Is there defecation?
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A couple of people use the bathroom while camping in a tree / a stroke patient with extensive paralysis
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Is there a large age gap?
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its mentioned a couple times but mostly among adults / see: pedophilia
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Are needles/syringes used?
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Briefly here and there as people are in hospitals/get medical treatment
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Is there copaganda?
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Cops play a distinctly unflattering role
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Does a non-human character die?
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Trees
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Is there amputation?
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some mentions of this here and there but not in much detail / a guy thinks about cutting his (permanently injured) leg off because it gets in the way of his work
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Is someone drugged?
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There is a scene where this possibly happens, but it’s unclear if true or if the person was already too drunk/messed up
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Is the r-slur used?
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An autistic boy is referred to by this word. The setting is during a time when the word was much more widely used.
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Is a child's toy destroyed?
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a kid’s collection of carefully curated artifacts are burned
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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
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Is there childbirth?
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Mentioned/implied but not described
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Does the abused become the abuser?
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Is there Achilles Tendon injury?
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someone cuts her ankle on a bike in the dark
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Does a car crash?
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Several. an accident in the snow / someone wraps her car around a tree and needs stitches but she’s okay / someone is thrown out and dies / someone is attacked while driving by another car who drives off
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Does a major character die?
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There are several major characters and a few of them do die by the end
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Is electro-therapy used?
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However someone is shocked to a brief death (she recovers) by faulty wiring
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A couple times
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Does someone wet/soil themselves?
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One of the characters is a paralyzed stroke patient, and his wife cleans him up a couple times / related but not quite, one kid pranks another into drinking urine (this is brief)
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Does a family member die?
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Multiple people die, and the story spans multiple generations
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Are there snakes?
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Briefly
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Is there body dysphoria?
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There is some exploration of existentialism and bodies and science which evokes a sort of dysphoria, a questioning of your body and what you are
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Does someone fall to their death?
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someone falls out of a plane but is caught on his parachute / see: fall down stairs
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Does someone fall down stairs?
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someone is found at the bottom of the stairs but it’s unclear if he fell down them or just next to them
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Is someone possessed?
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someone has an NDE and afterwards feels as if her actions are being influenced by something outside of her (she’s okay with this) / there are a few moments where pov characters describe doing things they feel they are being guided/influenced to do, but it’s not really described as possession
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Is religion discussed?
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Multiple religions and approaches to spirituality
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Is there a nuclear explosion?
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Not nuclear but there are explosions and bombs
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Is someone kidnapped?
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a young woman goes missing and is never seen again
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Are there ghosts?
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Not quite in a monster way, maybe more like in a coping way. characters do talk about and interact with people who are dead
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Are there 9/11 depictions?
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a couple of characters watch the towers fall on TV
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Is a priceless artifact destroyed?
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a kid’s collection of sticks and seeds are burned / there are ongoing themes of environmentalism and precious life being destroyed
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Does someone vomit?
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On multiple occasions
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Multiple characters make attempts on their own lives, some succeed and some do not/change their minds
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Is there ABA therapy?
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There is a kid who goes to Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for a while
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Does someone have a stroke?
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Part of the story is from the POV of someone while he’s having a stroke, and some of what happens after is from his and his wife’s POV
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gun to the head
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