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Mar 24, 2018
Jen
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it was amazing
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This was so good. All the characters were really well realized, and I loved that they all had realistic faults and good traits. For a book about such a difficult topic, it was still written with humor, heart and warmth, while never shying away from reality. A longer book, but a fast read. As someone in my book club said, "This is a case about fiction teaching you better than nonfiction."
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This was a hard book to read, and also a hard book to put down and stop reading.
The basic premise of the book, that the main character had to maintain two versions of herself to both be adequately Black and also able to cope with the White world of her school was just heartbreaking on its own. Combined with the shooting of one of her friends, and her background of having witnessed the death of another close friend in childhood, it kept getting worse and worse.
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The basic premise of the book, that the main character had to maintain two versions of herself to both be adequately Black and also able to cope with the White world of her school was just heartbreaking on its own. Combined with the shooting of one of her friends, and her background of having witnessed the death of another close friend in childhood, it kept getting worse and worse.
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I went in expecting to be moved, and I was. What I also found was a beautifully populated world with characters so well written they felt real, and that I wanted to just spend more time with.
Oct 31, 2017
Kelli
marked it as to-read
