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laceblade ([personal profile] laceblade) wrote2012-10-13 02:42 pm

The Casual Vacancy

I feel like this entire book is a big middle finger to the white middle class.

Trigger warnings for self-harm, suicide, domestic violence, rape.
Also casual fatphobia, cultural exoticism, racism, transphobic slurs, etc. It's a devastatingly realistic portrait of a town. But reliving all those things might not be for everyone, and if any of those things are triggering for you, I would strongly recommend avoiding it.

Due to the mass of awful-ness, I wavered a bit partway through the book, especially due to Rowling's use of fatness as a marker for moral bankruptcy.
Still, her writing style and scathing portrait of class tensions made this book worth it for me.

This book is definitely a downer; highly recommended for masochists.

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