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Day of Tears by Julius Lester

5.0

I don't typically write reviews (and honestly I probably don't need to - the Coretta Scott King Award, Kirkus, Publisher's Weekly, and School Library Journal starred reviews speak for themselves). But don't let the size of this book fool you. In under two hundred pages Julius Lester has created a masterpiece. It is of course, "a novel in dialogue" but it is also woven with monologues and flashbacks to create an emotional journey because of the nuanced experiences and recollections of characters. Not to mention the repetition and purposeful usage of similes made the novel poetic at times.