Names for the Dawn by C.L. Beaumont
Seasoned Park Ranger Will Avery has found his home in the Denali wilderness, cherishing his solitary routines for the decade leading up to 1991. The trade-off that no one knows of his identity as a transgender man feels worth it for the comforting assurance he finds in the towering glaciers. Until Will discovers an unexpected passenger in his truck—the visiting wolf biologist everyone in the Park is ecstatic to meet—Nikhil Rajawat. Nikhil doesn’t return his new colleagues’ fervour. He’s dreamt of Denali for one reason: the pinnacle of his research, and it isn’t anyone’s business that this is the last year he’ll get to chase the wolves. He… Read more.
Trigger & Content Warnings
- Racism
- Homomisia discussed
- Transmisia recounted*
- Familial estrangement & disownment*
- Physical child abuse recounted*
- Anxiety & panic attacks
- Insomnia
- Nightmare
- Parent with alcoholism recounted
- Recovery from substance addiction including an off-page relapse
- Suicidal ideation recounted
- Alcohol consumption
- Pregnancy & childbirth mentioned (sc)
- Weight loss mentioned
- Gender dysphoria & body dysmorphia
- Scars from top surgery mentioned
- Gun violence*
- Bullying
- Animal death, including a wolf cub & death of a pet dog
*Context : When the protagonist came out to his father, his father shot a gun at the barn near him. He has wondered for years if it was intentional or an accident. As a child, the protagonist’s mother physically abused him and burnt him with cigarettes.
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