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When the World Tips Over by Jandy Nelson

  • This is a novel that weaves together the
    lives of three siblings as they navigate
    generational trauma, family secrets, and
    a "tilting" world manifest through
    emotional magical realism.

  • This book contains: alcohol/abuse, alternate
    gender/sexual ideologies, anxiety, bullying
    (extreme), child abuse (significant),
    controversial cultural, gender, dark content,
    divination, dubious consent, religious and
    social commentary, death, deception, drugs,
    grief, app hookup culture, murder, occultism
    (themes), parental neglect (significant), porn
    (referenced), profanity (potentially
    pervasively vulgar), religious/spiritual
    denigration, sexual activities/nudity, sexual
    battery, sexual exploitation (referenced),
    smoking, suicide ideation, toxic relationships,
    and voilence.

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