A Little Life
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very descriptive intimate partner violence
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There are detailed descriptions of the extreme emotional, physical and sexual abuse that Jude endured as a child
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JB gets addicted to meth
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Sexual abuse and venereal disease
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Jude has his legs amputated
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Final pages, an accident causes this. It's not very descriptive tho.
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Theres a scene where a main character gives himself a third-degree burn on his arm as an act of self-harm
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I must remind that one character commits suicide like this
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Jude is tortured by several people and his own body
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Detailed descriptions of beatings and self-harm
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Jude deliberately cuts himself several times throughout the book
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it’s shown in a flashback that a character’s son had multiple seizures.
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Harold’s son Jacob dies of a neurodegenerative disease, Willem’s disabled older brother (who he cares for) also dies
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Both of Willem’s parents
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Objects that Jude had collected are taken away and a mug that Jacob made for Harold is smashed
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Jude attempts suicide in the shower
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Jude vomits from pain when he has an episode, and vomits several times for other reasons including stress and injuries
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It’s a book
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Lots of characters have various different types of cancer
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Jude has PTSD from the abuse he endured as a child, which is the main plot line of the book
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The main character has disordered eating habits for most of the book. When he goes into a depressive episode he loses his appetite. Towards the end of the book, his eating becomes extremely disordered. He realizes not eating makes him hallucinate a dead loved one, so he starves himself to see him
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this book almost enables suicidality and suicidal ideation, and so do the characters
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very graphic descriptions, soread throughout the book
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Jude hates his body and thinks he is grotesque
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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (1-800-273-8255)
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One of the main characters (Jude) is disabled. The ableist behaviour/language is rarely shown until Jude begins dating Caleb. Caleb does not like that Jude is disabled and forces him to not his wheelchair when he's in pain. He disregards Jude's chronic pain and health issues, "telling him to suck it up and get over it". Caleb is one the antagonist in the book, his actions towards Jude aren't frowned upon by the narration
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doingstuffdontask2
Most of the characters are LGBT and a lot of them survive. Their deaths aren't related to their sexualities and it doesn't fall under the "bury your gays" troppe
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There’s a misunderstanding where some characters believe a character is transitioning gender when actually she is transitioning to a different geographical location
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alexd05
A gay character uses the F-slur indirectly.
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OliverxGrotegut
The jokes are made as self-deprication by a fat character
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It's not real, but the main character briefly hallucinates that his adoptive father is raping him.
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the ending is very traumatising in and of itself. a hopeless ending
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Willem and Malcolm are killed in a car crash
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