Delicious Foods: A Novel
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Meat
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Several workers are tortured for minor infractions. Sometimes, the bosses persuade workers to punish one another
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I’d say that the detailed description of hand amputation should count here
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Some of Sextus’ fingers get shot off
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Darlene loses teeth in a fight
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Nat is lynched by burning
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Is there amputation?
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The book opens with the protagonist just having had his hands amputated. The actual amputation scene is in chapter 22. It’s very graphic
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Are there bugs?
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Palmetto bugs discussed throughout, particularly in relation to the squalor the workers are living jn
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Is a child abandoned by a parent?
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Eddy’s mother Darlene becomes so grief-stricken after Nat’s lynching that she becomes addicted to cocaine and leaves Eddy alone at home for days at a time. At that point, she’s really not able to be a mother to him
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Does someone break a bone?
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A character breaks his toe and another character’s arms get broken in chapter 17
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Is someone gaslighted?
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Darlene is tricked into indentured servitude on a farm. The employer has her sign a contract while she’s on cocaine, lying about accommodations and benefits. The employer takes her to a farm far away, doesn’t let her call her son, locks her and other workers in a dormitory, and insinuates that she never had a handbag when it goes missing
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Is someone drugged?
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No one is drugged against their will per se, but the workers, who are addicted to cocaine, are in an environment where they have constant access to it as a form of coercion and keeping them confused and unable to escape
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Does a parent die?
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Eddy’s father is lynched
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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
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Does the abused become the abuser?
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Is there addiction?
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Cocaine use throughout. Darlene’s addiction is personified
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Is someone stalked?
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The workers at Delicious Foods are under constant surveillance
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Does someone cheat?
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Sextus cheats on his wife with Darlene
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Are there snakes?
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Mention that workers have to kill snakes sometimes
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Is someone kidnapped?
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Not kidnapped per se. The premise of the book is that an agricultural company promises people addicted to drugs good paying jobs and luxurious accommodations. In reality, they’re working in slave-like conditions, the bosses stoke their addictions, and the bosses saddle them with bogus debt to keep them from leaving.
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Does someone have a chronic illness?
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Darlene’s father is mentioned to have a few
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Eddy blacks out when his hands are amputated
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