A review by zbrarian
The Awakening of Malcolm X by Tiffany D. Jackson, Ilyasah Shabazz

4.0

The path Malcolm LIttle had to take to “reawaken” as Malcolm X and embrace the Nation of Islam, was sprinkled with small, meaningful, sometimes nightmare-ish, Easter Eggs, one of which burst open at his lowest moment. This story was a well written, fictionalized version of his awakening by his own daughter Ilyasah Shabazz. The book explored many important issues, such as race, the justice system and prison reform. I liked how the story went back and forth from his tough upbringing, by a single mother with seven children to his rough and tumble teen years, and his time spent in prison. This would be a great book for history classes.