REVIEW: The Voting Booth by Brandy Colbert

Dear Brandy Colbert,

I’ve been meaning to read one of your books for a long time and when The Voting Booth was published I was struck by the cleverness of the concept. This romantic YA novel takes place over the course of one day—Election Day—with Marva Sheridan, an activist eighteen-year-old Black girl, helping Duke Crenshaw, a biracial boy the same age, vote after he discovers that his name isn’t on the voter rolls at their local polling station.

It’s the first chance to vote in an election f...