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A review by inked_in_pages
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
5.0
"It would be easy to quit if it was just about me, Khalil, that night, and that cop. It's about way more than that though. It's about Seven. Sekani. Kenya. DeVante. It's also about Oscar. Aiyana. Trayvon. Rekia. Michael. Eric. Gamut. John. Ezell. Sandra. Freddie. Alton. Philando. It's even about that little boy in 1955 who nobody recognized at first - Emmett."
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Starr Carter is an ordinary teenager. She is in her first relationship, she plays basketball for her high school, she has a family that is both loving and annoying at times. Starr is also a black teenager trying reconcile where she fits in a world that tells her she doesn't belong. She doesn't quite fit into the Garden Heights neighborhood because she goes to a private school outside of the neighborhood. She doesn't quite fit in at her school as one of two black students in her grade. So far, she's done okay with reconciling her different words, until she experiences a life changing event and realizes she must use her voice.
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Anything I write as a review will not justify the importance and beauty of this novel. So instead I will defer to a review printed on the sleeve of the novel. "The Hate U Give makes you uncomfortable, that's because it should." Read it. Recommend it. It's important.
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Starr Carter is an ordinary teenager. She is in her first relationship, she plays basketball for her high school, she has a family that is both loving and annoying at times. Starr is also a black teenager trying reconcile where she fits in a world that tells her she doesn't belong. She doesn't quite fit into the Garden Heights neighborhood because she goes to a private school outside of the neighborhood. She doesn't quite fit in at her school as one of two black students in her grade. So far, she's done okay with reconciling her different words, until she experiences a life changing event and realizes she must use her voice.
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Anything I write as a review will not justify the importance and beauty of this novel. So instead I will defer to a review printed on the sleeve of the novel. "The Hate U Give makes you uncomfortable, that's because it should." Read it. Recommend it. It's important.