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What You Left Behind by Jessica Verdi

  • Seventeen-year-old Ryden Brooks struggles to navigate the crushing weight of teenage fatherhood and terminal grief after his girlfriend dies of cancer.

     

  • This book contains: abortion (themes/medical necessity), alcohol (heavy), death (terminal illness), deception, derogatory terms, controversial social, medical commentary, emotional dissociation, explicit sexual activities/nudity, grief (heavy), inflammatory gender, passive self-harm, political commentary, profanity (excessive and pervasively vulgar), teen pregnancy, sexual crude monologues, survivor’s guilt, violence and voyeurism.

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