Trigger Warning by Townsend, Jacinda
Trigger Warning by Townsend, Jacinda

Trigger Warning

A new novel about the enduring trauma of police brutality by the award-winning author of Mother Country...
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Author: Jacinda Townsend
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Trigger Warning by Townsend, Jacinda

Trigger Warning

$27.56
Trigger Warning by Townsend, Jacinda

Trigger Warning

$27.56
Author: Jacinda Townsend
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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A new novel about the enduring trauma of police brutality by the award-winning author of Mother Country

She'd gotten no trigger warning. And her entire life, she wanted to scream now, had deserved a trigger warning.

Early in life, Ruth survived a series of devastating events: Her little brother died from a childhood illness, her mother died of grief, and then her father was shot by the police right in front of their home. In the years following her father's murder, Ruth pushes her past underground. She changes her name and moves to Kentucky, marries a man named Myron, and together they raise a kid. It's been two decades, and she is, by outside measures, living a good life--but why doesn't it feel good? When her marriage comes to a sudden end, their house burns down in the middle of the night, and she learns that her estranged sister has been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, Ruth is jolted back into action. She flees again, this time back to her home state of California, with her nonbinary teenager in tow, perhaps ready at last to face her pain and retrieve her former self.

Searing, surprisingly witty, and deeply human, Trigger Warning is a novel about the durational aftermath of anti-Black police violence. Through the perspectives of Ruth and Myron, and those of their friends and their child, Townsend explores divorce and desire, the heartbreaking brevity of parenting, the push and pull of old friendships, and the possibility, after incredible trauma, of reconnecting to what makes us feel alive.

Author: Jacinda Townsend
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Published: 09/16/2025
Pages: 360
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.50w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9781644453544


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 07/01/2025
Library Journal 08/01/2025 pg. 60

About the Author
Jacinda Townsend is the author of Mother Country, winner of the Ernest Gaines Award for Literary Excellence, and Saint Monkey, winner of the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize and the James Fenimore Cooper Prize. She teaches at Brown University.
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