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If You Come Softly by Jacqueline Woodson
4.0

This book didn't feel like reading a story, it felt like I was walking besides two teenagers living their normal, mundane lives. And in the beginning. I wondered if something was going to happen, since this is based on Shakespeare after all, but soon enough I forgot about it.

And then I came to the end, and it became painfully clear why this story had to be told like this. To show you that this is not a story, this is mundane life, still, for a large number of people living in this world, just trying to get home.

It helped change a mediocre story to an excellent one. This story helped see so much more what dangers and challenges black people face still, but hopefully not forever.