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.