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The Hate U Give
by Angie Thomas
This was such a powerful story and is such an important story to tell. Starr lives almost a double-life balancing her identity in her family and the neighborhood she grew up in with her social identity at her predominantly-white school. Mostly she has coasted with both by becoming a social chameleon and keeping a low profile, but when a good friend is shot (unarmed) in an arrest gone very, very wrong, she realizes that playing the middle ground means that she's also giving up a lot of herself and she can't afford to do that anymore.
The timeliness and the resonance of the story is undeniable, but even aside from that, it was really impressive how Thomas manages to break down so many different arguments/excuses/justifications that people have when these terrible things happen so you really have a 360 view of the influences and the repercussions of these tragedies on a community.
It should be required reading for high school.
The timeliness and the resonance of the story is undeniable, but even aside from that, it was really impressive how Thomas manages to break down so many different arguments/excuses/justifications that people have when these terrible things happen so you really have a 360 view of the influences and the repercussions of these tragedies on a community.
It should be required reading for high school.