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He laughs. ''So the girl says no, and the guy doesn't stop, and she just lies there?'' 'Yeah?'' Dad laughs again. ''Dude. That's not even like illegitimate rape. That's garden-variety rape, kid.''
The character who is raped has some lines in which he says things like: ''I'm not a victim. Shut the hell up with all that victim shit.'''' and even though he's referring to his own situation and not others I think certain people could be very triggered by this kind of comments.

The Music of What Happens by Bill Konigsberg

  • Two teenagers spend a sweltering summer running a food truck while grappling with romance and significant personal traumas.

  • This book contains: alcohol, alternate gender/sexual ideologies, anxiety, bullying, controversial gender, racial, political and social commentary, death (backstory), depression, derogatory terms, drugs, gambling (backstory), hate speech, inappropriate dating app  links, lying, misogyny, parental neglect, parentification, profanity (pervasively vulgar), self-destructive behavior, sex toys, sexual activities/nudity, sexual assault (male on male), sexual dialogue,theft (out of necessity), and violence.

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