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This was a really great book. I am impressed by the authors ability to express such a difficult--and often argument-inducing--subject with such care and forthrightness. I could see myself and my views in Quinn, and I could see how I need to change and speak up. Amazing.
An excellent story, blended well between the two authors and two protagonists.
The story alternates each chapter between the POV of Rashad, a black teenager who makes decent grades, comes from a stable home life and is in juniorROTC and Quinn, a white teenager whose father died in Afghanistan, an almost always absent mother and a tagalong little brother.
The crux of the story is about the police brutality experienced by Rashad, witnessed by Quinn and the fallout that ensues within their communit ...more
The story alternates each chapter between the POV of Rashad, a black teenager who makes decent grades, comes from a stable home life and is in juniorROTC and Quinn, a white teenager whose father died in Afghanistan, an almost always absent mother and a tagalong little brother.
The crux of the story is about the police brutality experienced by Rashad, witnessed by Quinn and the fallout that ensues within their communit ...more
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