Give Me Your Hand, Megan Abbott 
Book
Literary Fiction
Mystery
Thriller
Book
Literary Fiction
Mystery
Thriller
Updated: 17 July 2021
No rape or sexual assault
Rape or sexual assault mentioned in passing (in discussion and/or implied)
Sexual harassment (e.g. verbal or non-consensual touching/grabbing)
Sexual relationship between adult and teenager
Child sexual abuse
Incest
Attempted rape
Rape strongly implied/details surrounding a rape discussed in detail (i.e. the events before/after)
Detailed/vivid description of rape

Description

Discussion of past sex between adult and a 14 year old girl (not nonconsensual, exactly, but she has a lot of mixed feelings about it afterward). Pervasive misogynistic microaggression. sex between two adults who have been drinking. The woman is much more drunk than the man and regrets it the next morning. Implication that he may have deliberately stayed more sober than she. Mention of past sex between a college boy and a high school girl who was too drunk to remember what happened.

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