A young woman escapes kidnapping stripped of identity and rebuilds her life in a gritty near-future underworld while confronting family trauma and her own past.
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A young woman escapes kidnapping stripped of identity and rebuilds her life in a gritty near-future underworld while confronting family trauma and her own past.
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Nicola Griffith, winner of the Tiptree Award and the Lambda Award for her widely acclaimed first novel Ammonite, now turns her attention closer to the present in Slow River, the dark and intensely involving story of a young woman's struggle for survival and independence on the gritty underside of a near-future Europe.She awoke in an alley to the splash of rain. She was naked, a foot-long gash in her back was still bleeding, and her identity implant was gone. Lore Van de Oest was the daughter of ...
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Sexual content
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On-page sexual content including prostitution; relationship between two women; aftermath of sexual assault and coercion.
Violence & gore
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Injury from kidnapping with bleeding wound; references to physical abuse during captivity.
Profanity
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Occasional strong language in gritty urban and criminal contexts.
Substance use
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LGBTQ+ Rep.
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Central lesbian relationship and queer identity themes; protagonist explores sexuality while reinventing herself.
Religious content
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Magic & witchcraft
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Occult / demonology
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Political content
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Themes of corporate power, class disparity, and personal autonomy in a near-future setting.
Self-harm / suicide
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Abuse & suffering
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Child sexual abuse referenced; prolonged kidnapping involving sexual violation; coercion, degradation, and systemic family abuse.
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