Death of a Grandparent – Page 7 – Trigger Warning Database

The Square Root of Summer by Harriet Reuter Hapgood

The Square Root of Summer by Harriet Reuter Hapgood

Gottie H. Oppenheimer is losing time. Literally. When the fabric of the universe around her seaside town begins to fray, she’s hurtled through wormholes to her past: To last summer, when her grandfather Grey died. To the afternoon she fell in love with Jason, who wouldn’t even hold her hand at the funeral. To the day her best friend Thomas moved away and left her behind with a scar on her hand and a black hole in her memory. lthough Grey is still gone, Jason and Thomas are back, and Gottie’s past, present, and future are about to collide—and someone’s heart is about to be broken.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Alcohol consumption
Hospital
Emesis
Death of a grandfather
Knife violence
Bike accident

This Delicious Death by Kayla Cottingham

This Delicious Death by Kayla Cottingham

Three years ago, the melting of arctic permafrost released a pathogen of unknown origin into the atmosphere, causing a small percentage of people to undergo a transformation that became known as the Hollowing. Those impacted slowly became intolerant to normal food and were only able to gain sustenance by consuming the flesh of other human beings. Those who went without flesh quickly became feral, turning on their friends and family. However, scientists were able to create a synthetic version of human meat that would satisfy the hunger of those impacted by the Hollowing. As a result, humanity slowly began to… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Sexism
Transmisia mentioned
Child neglect
Deadnaming
Anxiety mentioned
Intrusive thoughts
Nightmares
Suicidal ideation, implied
Alcohol consumption
Drugging
Graphic blood & gore depiction including dead bodies and body parts
Body horror
Graphic cannibalism
Pandemic
Scars
Needles & syringes
Grief & loss depiction
Death of a grandparent
Death of a sibling
Murder
Gun violence
Captivity & confinement
Fire

*Context : The plot revolves around the protagonist eating people to survive. The deadname is not explicitly stated. The pandemic involves a fictionalised disease. Similarly, the drugging incident involves a fictional drug.

We Are Okay by Nina LaCour

We Are Okay by Nina LaCour

Marin hasn’t spoken to anyone from her old life since the day she left everything behind. No one knows the truth about those final weeks. Not even her best friend, Mabel. But even thousands of miles away from the California coast, at college in New York, Marin still feels the pull of the life and tragedy she’s tried to outrun. Now, months later, alone in an emptied dorm for winter break, Marin waits. Mabel is coming to visit, and Marin will be forced to face everything that’s been left unsaid and finally confront the loneliness that has made a home in her heart.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Alcohol consumption
Grief & loss depiction
Death of a mother
Death of a grandfather from drowning

The Doctor by Nikki Sloane

The Doctor by Nikki Sloane

For years, he was a part of my life. I watched him rush to the hospital countless times, his beautiful surgeon hands racing to save lives. After all this time, I can’t escape the truth. I want Dr Lowe. Lust chokes each moment we’re together. He promises to fulfil my fantasies—every dirty, naughty desire we can dream up. Only, I can’t have him. He’s confident. Experienced. Seductive. And he’s my ex-boyfriend’s father.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Parental abandonment
Cheating
Appendicitis
Death of a grandmother recounted

You Have a Match by Emma Lord

You Have a Match by Emma Lord

When Abby signs up for a DNA service, it’s mainly to give her friend and secret love interest, Leo, a nudge. After all, she knows who she is already: Avid photographer. Injury-prone tree climber. Best friend to Leo and Connie … although ever since the B.E.I. (Big Embarrassing Incident) with Leo, things have been awkward on that front. But she didn’t know she’s a younger sister. When the DNA service reveals Abby has a secret sister, shimmery-haired Instagram star Savannah Tully, it’s hard to believe they’re from the same planet, never mind the same parent… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Parental abandonment mentioned
Alcohol consumption mentioned
Anxiety
Physical injury & illness, including pneumonia & broken bones
Parent hospitalised for a serious, perceived terminal heart condition recounted
Grief & loss depiction
Death of a grandfather recounted

The Storyteller by Jodi Picoult

The Storyteller by Jodi Picoult

Sage Singer is a baker. She works through the night, preparing the day’s breads and pastries, trying to escape a reality of loneliness, bad memories, and the shadow of her mother’s death. When Josef Weber, an elderly man in Sage’s grief support group, begins stopping by the bakery, they strike up an unlikely friendship. Despite their differences, they see in each other the hidden scars that others can’t, and they become companions. Everything changes on the day that Josef confesses a long-buried and shameful secret—one that nobody else in town would ever… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Nazism
Infidelity
Facial scar
Death of grandparents in a concentration camp during the Holocaust

Edinburgh by Alexander Chee

Edinburgh by Alexander Chee

Twelve-year-old Fee is a shy Korean American boy and a newly named section leader of the first sopranos in his local boys’ choir. But when Fee learns how the director treats his section leaders, he is so ashamed he says nothing of the abuse, not even when Peter, his best friend, is in line to be next. When the director is arrested, Fee tries to forgive himself for his silence. But when Peter takes his own life, Fee blames only himself. In the years that follow he slowly builds a new life, teaching near his hometown. There he meets a young student who is the picture of Peter and is forced to confront the past he believed was gone.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Racism
Homomisic slurs
Paedophilia, including child pornography
Suicide by gun
Self-immolation
Self-harm
Black Death pandemic
Death of a grandparents
Murder
Arson

Burning Roses by SL Huang

Burning Roses by S.L. Huang

Rosa, also known as Red Riding Hood, is done with wolves and woods. Hou Yi the Archer is tired, and knows she’s past her prime. They would both rather just be retired, but that’s not what the world has ready for them. When deadly sunbirds begin to ravage the countryside, threatening everything they’ve both grown to love, the two must join forces. Now blessed and burdened with the hindsight of middle age, they begin a quest that’s a reckoning of sacrifices made and mistakes mourned, of choices and family and the quest for immortality.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Smoking
Starvation
Burn scars mentioned
Murder of a grandmother mentioned
Gun violence
Fire, on-page
Animal attack
Animal death

Spellcaster by Claudia Gray

Spellcaster by Claudia Gray

When Nadia’s family moves to Captive’s Sound, she instantly realizes there’s more to the place than meets the eye. Descended from witches, Nadia can sense that a spell has been cast over the tiny Rhode Island town—a sickness infecting everyone and everything in it. The magic at work is darker and more powerful than anything she’s come across and has sunk its claws most deeply into Mateo, her rescuer, her friend, and the guy she yearns to get closer to even as he pushes her away. Mateo has lived in Captive’s Sound his entire life, shadowed by small-town gossip and his family’s tormented past. Every generation… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Ableism & ableist language,
Racist microaggressions
Sexual assault (by coercion)
Sexual harassment
Parental abandonment
Parental divorce
Nightmares
Hospitalisation
Coma
Facial scars mentioned
Grief & loss depiction
Death of a mother from suicide by drowning recounted
Death of a grandfather in a fire mentioned
Death of a mother & father from viral pneumonia mentioned
Murder & attempted murder
Near-drowning
Car accident, on-page
Loss of autonomy (memory manipulation and mind control)
Sinkholes, on-page
Bullying

Butterface by Avery Flynn

Butterface by Avery Flynn

It’s true. I’m not what most people would call “pretty” and, well, high school was rough. Fast forward ten years and life is good. Until a bunch of jerks think it’s hilarious to put the “butterface” (AKA me) on a wedding Kiss Cam with the hottest guy ever—and that old humiliation hits hard. I recognize him immediately. The sexiest cop in Waterbury and totally out of my league. But then he kisses me. And we totally forget the room, the crowd, everything. Then he tells everyone we’ve been dating for months Soon everything starts to feel too real, from adorable fights over… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Death of a grandparent
Bullying