warnings

CONTENT WARNINGS: This book contains distressing, graphic content. It is the design and intent of this book to contain distressing and graphic content. On the one hand, I believe that to enumerate the kinds of distressing and graphic content in this book would be both a futile endeavor, and presumptuous regarding the nature of what is constructed as distressing or graphic. On the other, I understand that for some people, this is a serious accessibility concern. I recommend reading KILLBOY with no knowledge of its potentially distressing content – this is the intended experience of the novel – but have left a list of potential content warnings here, with an awareness of the socially constructed nature of "common triggers" and the fact that trauma is profoundly idiosyncratic and unpredictable. I encourage readers to proceed with caution.