![]() Despite having kept his younger brother safe, the trip yields awful results for Jake, who has managed to avoid abuse since having left for college, never mind that he has transferred the guilt into self-cutting. ![]() After being invited on a camping trip by his father during a school break, Jake agrees to go, if only so Ben would not be alone with him. Jake has been sexually abused by his father since early adolescence, and he fears the same fate may be awaiting his five-year-old kid brother, Ben. That it is exceptionally well-written and sensitive to its protagonist’s plight goes a long way to making it an endurable, challenging, and, because of such employed skill, ultimately gratifying read. This is not to be taken lightly, for even for those never subjected to the levels of abuse that the book’s protagonist, Jake Smith, 20, has endured since childhood, it is a grueling experience that tests the nerves and unsettles the soul. ![]() He has coated me with approval again in a way that doesn’t wash off.Ī warning is made in advance of Gayle Towell’s novella, Blood Gravity: that it is a work rife with psychological triggers. ![]()
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