Literary Fiction
A bookish twelve-year-old in 1970s Mississippi hunts her brother’s killer, dragging a child’s game into a dark small-town underworld of crime and grief.
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A bookish twelve-year-old in 1970s Mississippi hunts her brother’s killer, dragging a child’s game into a dark small-town underworld of crime and grief.
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Twelve-year-old Harriet is doing her best to grow up, which is not easy as her mother is permanently on medication, her father has moved to another city, and her sister rarely notices anything. All of them are still suffering from the shocking and mysterious death of her brother Robin twelve years earlier, and it seems to Harriet that the family may never recover. Inspired by Houdini, and Robert Louis Stevenson, she sets out with her only friend Hely to find Robin's murderer and punish him. But ...
What's Inside
will contain mild spoilers
Sexual content
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Some on-page sexual content in adult criminal and side storylines
Violence & gore
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Child murder, gun violence, gore, and sustained peril in a criminal underworld
Profanity
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Pervasive strong profanity; frequent racial, anti-gay, and ableist slurs
Substance use
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Hard-drug addiction central to key characters; paranoia and decline shown
LGBTQ+ Rep.
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No evidence found in available sources
Religious content
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No evidence found in available sources
Magic & witchcraft
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No fantasy magic present
Occult / demonology
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No occult content present
Political content
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Central race and class themes in 1970s Mississippi small-town society
Self-harm / suicide
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Suicide referenced among darker plot elements
Abuse & suffering
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Child death and abuse, bullying, racial cruelty, hate crime, domestic dysfunction
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