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Graphic: Alcoholism, Body shaming, Cancer, Child abuse, Eating disorder, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Toxic relationship, Death of parent
Graphic: Animal death, Bullying, Mental illness, Death of parent
Moderate: Child abuse, Murder
Minor: Ableism
Graphic: Alcoholism, Racism, Trafficking, Colonisation
Moderate: Addiction, Animal cruelty, Confinement, Rape, Sexual assault, Torture
Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug abuse
Moderate: Chronic illness, Gun violence, Self harm, Forced institutionalization, Abandonment
If I had to quickly summarize this book I’d say it’s Heathers meets the Craft meets Psycho. It’s about mean girls and toxic friendships and obsession and madness.
This book places queer, female desire at its center as it explores the horrors of adolescence and aging, the thin line between pleasure and pain, and the many dualities of womanhood. It combines angst and madness in a way that cautions (strongly) against uncontrolled desire.
Jawbone is a truly disturbing book. Not just with its imagery (which can be downright gross) but also with the very composition of the prose. With each subordinate clause and parenthetical remark within parenthetical remark, the reader grows more and more uncomfortable and the foreboding and claustrophobic atmosphere intensifies.
This is Ojeda’s first book to be translated into English and all I can say is man, I can’t wait for more.
Graphic: Body horror, Bullying, Confinement, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Kidnapping, Lesbophobia, Toxic friendship
Moderate: Child abuse, Child death, Sexism, Blood, Excrement, Cannibalism, Classism
Minor: Animal death
Graphic: Cancer, Grief, Death of parent
Minor: Alcoholism
Graphic: Body shaming, Fatphobia, Misogyny, Sexism
Moderate: Confinement, Death, Gore, Excrement
Minor: Homophobia, Antisemitism, Islamophobia, Religious bigotry, Murder