Racism – Page 2 – Trigger Warning Database

Ace of Swords by Clare Carter

The war between vampires and angels has been long and arduous. Logan’s father was taken by a vampire when she was a child, and her brother has long since been separated from her by the foster system. She’s spent her entire life in fear of vampires, researching everything she can about them in an attempt to someday find her father. When she meets a mute boy named Cade, who is searching for the vampire’s base, she knows this is the opportunity she’s been looking for. Cade isn’t a normal boy, though–he’s an… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Racism
Blood & gore depiction

The Woman in the Library by Sulari Gentill

The ornate reading room at the Boston Public Library is quiet, until the tranquillity is shattered by a woman’s terrified scream. Security guards take charge immediately, instructing everyone inside to stay put until the threat is identified and contained. While they wait for the all-clear, four strangers, who’d happened to sit at the same table, pass the time in conversation and friendships are struck. Each has his or her own reasons for being in the reading room that morning—it just happens that one is a murderer.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Racism & ableism, including mentions of police brutality
Physical child abuse by alcoholic parent(secondary character)
Dieting mentioned
Alcohol consumption
Parental infertility mentioned (secondary character)
Physical injury & mentions of the COVID-19 pandemic
Death of a father from a heart attack mentioned (secondary character)
Death of a sister in a mountaineering accident recounted
Murder
Mugging with knife (secondary character)
Phyiscal assault
Incarceration for the murder of a stepfather in self-defence (secondary character)
Homelessness mentioned
Bushfires mentioned

The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston

The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts is Kingston’s disturbing and fiercely beautiful account of growing up Chinese-American in California. The young Kingston lives in two worlds: the America to which her parents have immigrated and the China of her mother’s “talk stories.” Her mother tells her traditional tales of strong, wily women warriors – tales that clash puzzlingly with the real oppression of women. Kingston learns to fill in the mystifying spaces in her mother’s stories with stories of her own, engaging her family’s past and her own present with anger, imagination, and dazzling passion.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Racism & racial slurs
Cheating
Suicide by drowning
Alcohol consumption & mentions of smoking
Pregnancy
Murder
Sword violence
Animal death

Lakewood by Megan Giddings

When Lena Johnson’s beloved grandmother dies, and the full extent of the family debt is revealed, the black millennial drops out of college to support her family and takes a job in the mysterious and remote town of Lakewood, Michigan. On paper, her new job is too good to be true. High paying. No out of pocket medical expenses. A free place to live. All Lena has to do is participate in a secret program—and lie to her friends and family about the research being done in Lakewood. An eye drop that makes brown eyes blue, a medication that could be a cure for dementia, golden… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Racism & eugenics
Medical experimentation & body horror (on-page)
Death of a grandmother from cancer recounted
Financial difficulties (theme)

Woman, Eating by Claire Kohda

Lydia is hungry. She’s always wanted to try Japanese food. Sashimi, ramen, onigiri with sour plum stuffed inside – the food her Japanese father liked to eat. And then there is bubble tea and iced-coffee, ice cream and cake, and foraged herbs and plants, and the vegetables grown by the other young artists at the London studio space she is secretly squatting in. But, Lydia can’t eat any of these things. Her body doesn’t work like those of other people. The only thing she can digest is blood, and it turns out that sourcing fresh pigs’ blood in London–where she is living away from… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Racism & racial slurs
Colonialism
Rape recounted (off-page)
Workplace sexual harassment
Emotional parental abuse
Self-harm
Stillbirth
Murder

The Women Could Fly by Megan Giddings

Josephine Thomas has heard every conceivable theory about her mother’s disappearance. That she was kidnapped. Murdered. That she took on a new identity to start a new family. That she was a witch. This is the most worrying charge because in a world where witches are real, peculiar behavior raises suspicions and a woman–especially a Black woman–can find herself on trial for witchcraft. But fourteen years have passed since her mother’s disappearance, and now Jo is finally ready to let go of the past. Yet her future is in doubt. The State mandates that all women marry by… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Misogyny, homophobia & racism (theme)
Murder & disappearance of a mother
Animal death
Bullying

World of Wonders by Aimee Nezhukumatathil

From beloved, award-winning poet Aimee Nezhukumatathil comes a debut work of nonfiction–a collection of essays about the natural world, and the way its inhabitants can teach, support, and inspire us. As a child, Nezhukumatathil called many places home: the grounds of a Kansas mental institution, where her Filipina mother was a doctor; the open skies and tall mountains of Arizona, where she hiked with her Indian father; and the chillier climes of western New York and Ohio. But no matter where she was transplanted–no matter how awkward the fit or f… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Racism
Animal death
Bullying

Wow, No Thank You by Samantha Irby

Irby is turning forty, and increasingly uncomfortable in her own skin. She has left her job as a receptionist at a veterinary clinic, has published successful books and is courted by Hollywood, left Chicago, and moved into a house with a garden that requires repairs and know-how with her wife and two step-children in a small white, Republican town in Michigan where she now hosts book clubs. This is the bourgeois life of dreams. She goes on bad dates with new friends, spends weeks in Los Angeles taking meetings with “skinny, luminous peoples” while being a “cheese fry-eating… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Racism discussed
Fatphobia
Alcohol consumption
Chronic illness & pain (endometriosis)
Emesis
Death of a parent

Wrecked by Lauren Asher

Jax. Pills. Alcohol. Adrenaline. I’m addicted to destructive decisions that numb my pain. Until one night when I make a catastrophic mistake. To repair my broken reputation, my team hires Elena. An overpaid babysitter set on ruining my plans. She’s my damnation disguised as my salvation. And my newest addiction. Elena. I begged the universe to save me from my financial disaster. It answered my call with a Formula 1 team desperate for a PR miracle. One season. One job. One broody British racer. Except that Jax turns our hotel room into a battleground. To beat… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Racism mentioned
Drug & alcohol abuse
Alcoholism & substance addiction
Anxiety & panic attacks and nightmares
Relative with Huntington’s Disease & Alzheimer’s Disease
Emesis
Murder

The Good House by Tananarive Due

Angela hoped her grandmother’s famous “healing magic” could save her failing marriage while she and her family lived in the old house the summer of 2001. Instead, an unexpected tragedy ripped Angela’s family apart. Two years later, Angela is moving past her grief and is finally ready to revisit the rural house she loved so much as a child. But back in Sacajawea, she discovers she hasn’t been the only one to suffer a shocking loss. Since she left, there have been more senseless tragedies, and Angela wonders whether they are related somehow. Could the events be… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Racism & racial slurs
Sexual assault
Suicide
Emesis