A Little Life
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Your Triggers
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Unanswered Triggers
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Abandonment
Is a child abandoned by a parent?
145 supporters
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LouisT2924
Jude was left by a garbage dumpster few days after he was born
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Abuse
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Sid
There are detailed descriptions of the extreme emotional, physical and sexual abuse that Jude endured as a child
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beans_thesecond
very descriptive intimate partner violence
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Does the abused become the abuser?
National Domestic Violence Hotline (1-800-799-7233)
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Addiction
Is there addiction?
226 supporters
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LouisT2924
Jude is addicted to self harm
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LouisT2924
Jude also drugs himself to sleep as a coping mechanism
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Animal
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Assault
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beans_thesecond
multiple instances of vivid scenes; very graphic
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Bodily Harm
Is there shaving/cutting?
502 supporters
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It is very very descriptive too.
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Does a head get squashed?
573 supporters
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touryu
Final pages, an accident causes this. It's not very descriptive tho.
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Is there genital trauma/mutilation?
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Sid
Sexual abuse and venereal disease
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Is someone burned alive?
439 supporters
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Alannat
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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Is there excessive gore?
499 supporters
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Sid
Detailed descriptions of beatings and self-harm
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Is someone tortured?
761 supporters
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Sid
Jude is tortured by several people and his own body
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Is there amputation?
310 supporters
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Sid
Jude has his legs amputated
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Does someone fall down stairs?
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LouisT2924
Jude does it to himself at times and is also pushed down by his boyfriend
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Does someone have a seizure?
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legallybookish
it’s shown in a flashback that a character’s son had multiple seizures.
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Is there a hanging?
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touryu
I must remind that one character commits suicide like this
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Children
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Is a minor sexualized?
445 supporters
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LouisT2924
Jude is prostituted by multiple people since a very young age
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Does a kid die?
644 supporters
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Sid
Harold’s son Jacob dies of a neurodegenerative disease, Willem’s disabled older brother (who he cares for) also dies
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Death
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Disability
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Drugs/Alcohol
Does someone overdose?
192 supporters
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LouisT2924
JB almost does
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Family
Does a parent die?
326 supporters
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Sid
Both of Willem’s parents
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Yes
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Is a child's toy destroyed?
239 supporters
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Sid
Objects that Jude had collected are taken away and a mug that Jacob made for Harold is smashed
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Yes
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Fear
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Is there a shower scene?
159 supporters
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Sid
Jude attempts suicide in the shower
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Yes
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Gross
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Does someone vomit?
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Sid
Jude vomits from pain when he has an episode, and vomits several times for other reasons including stress and injuries
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Is there audio gore?
387 supporters
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Sid
It’s a book
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Large-scale Violence
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Law Enforcement
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LGBTQ+
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Medical
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Does someone have cancer?
231 supporters
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Sid
Lots of characters have various different types of cancer
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Mental Health
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Is there body dysmorphia?
344 supporters
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Sid
Jude hates his body and thinks he is grotesque
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Does someone attempt suicide?
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (1-800-273-8255)
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Yes
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beans_thesecond
this book almost enables suicidality and suicidal ideation, and so do the characters
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Does someone have an eating disorder?
573 supporters
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Alannat
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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Does someone suffer from PTSD?
263 supporters
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Sid
Jude has PTSD from the abuse he endured as a child, which is the main plot line of the book
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beans_thesecond
very graphic descriptions, soread throughout the book
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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (1-800-273-8255)
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Noxious
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Paranoia
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Pregnancy
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Prejudice
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Does an LGBT person die?
640 supporters
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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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Is there ableist language or behavior?
522 supporters
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Alannat
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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Are there fat jokes?
449 supporters
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OliverxGrotegut
The jokes are made as self-deprication by a fat character
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Are there homophobic slurs?
591 supporters
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alexd05
A gay character uses the F-slur indirectly.
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Sid
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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Yes
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Relationships
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Sex
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Yes
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esh99
It's not real, but the main character briefly hallucinates that his adoptive father is raping him.
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Yes
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Yes
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Sexism
Is a male character ridiculed for crying?
172 supporters
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LouisT2924
Jude hates himself for crying and is embarassed
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Sickness
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Yes
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Social
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Spoiler
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Does it have a sad ending?
536 supporters
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beans_thesecond
the ending is very traumatising in and of itself. a hopeless ending
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Vehicular
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Does a car crash?
189 supporters
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Sid
Willem and Malcolm are killed in a car crash
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Violence
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