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Monday's Not Coming by Tiffany D. Jackson
5.0
Monday's Not Coming by Tiffany D. Jackson follows the friendship of Claudia and Monday up until Monday's disappearance. Nobody cared much about her sudden vanishing or Claudia's persistence until she was found a year later.
This book covers a number of things that tend to happen in predominantly Black and poor communities. Jackson covers gentrification, the innate disregard by the police and other law enforcement, racial and educational disparities, child abuse and neglect, and even disregard by the community itself.
Claudia became increasingly aware that something was wrong with Monday when she stopped showing up to school and basically ceased all communication in their friendship. She reached out to every adult in her life to find some answers to her best friend's sudden disappearance but most, even her own parents, waved her off as if Monday was just ill or didn't want to be her friend anymore. However, Claudia knew better. She didn't stop until she knew the truth. She even went to the source--Monday's family--which is a huge no as Monday's mother isn't the sweetest peach in the bunch and April, Monday's sister, had better things to do than keep up with her little sister. Even getting that close to Monday wasn't enough until it was too late.
This book is a little difficult to grasp at first with the formatting being 'Before the Before', 'Before', and 'After.' However, once we start understand the formatting a little more and what is actually occurring as Claudia begins to unravel Monday's disappearance, it definitely becomes a lot more sinister and heartbreaking than one can fathom. When April yells to Claudia, "Monday's not coming!" in reference to her birthday party, the reader can already feel a sense of dread and turmoil for the young girl and her best friend.
Jackson does a really beautiful job of addressing trauma and how it can affect the brain and your entire life. This book is extremely heavy but it really touches on some key issues within the Black community and how these types of occurrences go ignored and these children and adults are left with nothing but pain.
This book covers a number of things that tend to happen in predominantly Black and poor communities. Jackson covers gentrification, the innate disregard by the police and other law enforcement, racial and educational disparities, child abuse and neglect, and even disregard by the community itself.
Claudia became increasingly aware that something was wrong with Monday when she stopped showing up to school and basically ceased all communication in their friendship. She reached out to every adult in her life to find some answers to her best friend's sudden disappearance but most, even her own parents, waved her off as if Monday was just ill or didn't want to be her friend anymore. However, Claudia knew better. She didn't stop until she knew the truth. She even went to the source--Monday's family--which is a huge no as Monday's mother isn't the sweetest peach in the bunch and April, Monday's sister, had better things to do than keep up with her little sister. Even getting that close to Monday wasn't enough until it was too late.
This book is a little difficult to grasp at first with the formatting being 'Before the Before', 'Before', and 'After.' However, once we start understand the formatting a little more and what is actually occurring as Claudia begins to unravel Monday's disappearance, it definitely becomes a lot more sinister and heartbreaking than one can fathom. When April yells to Claudia, "Monday's not coming!" in reference to her birthday party, the reader can already feel a sense of dread and turmoil for the young girl and her best friend.
Jackson does a really beautiful job of addressing trauma and how it can affect the brain and your entire life. This book is extremely heavy but it really touches on some key issues within the Black community and how these types of occurrences go ignored and these children and adults are left with nothing but pain.