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Cat’s Cradle
A search for the father of the atomic bomb leads to the end of the world by accident.
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About Cat’s Cradle
A writer investigating one of the creators of the atomic bomb is drawn to the Caribbean island of San Lorenzo, its strange religion of Bokononism and a substance called ice-nine. Vonnegut’s satire skewers science, faith and human folly on the road to apocalypse.
Reading signals
- Spice
- Light
- Darkness
- Dark
- Pacing
- Fast
Content warnings
- ableism
- death
- suicide
- racism
- racial slurs
- colonisation
- war
- death of parent
- sexism
- cancer
- terminal illness
- sexual content
- predatory adult/minor relationships
- animal death
