Dec. 12 – Angie Thomas – The Hate U Give – [Advent Calendar]

The Englewood Review of Books
Best Books of 2017
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December 12

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A Novel
 
Angie Thomas

 
Hardback: Balzer + Bray, 2017.
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“The Hate U Give” takes place in a neighborhood modeled on the community Ms. Thomas grew up in, where drugs and gang violence were inescapable but people looked out for one another. Starr shares many of the author’s traits — she loves basketball and Tupac, and shuttles between two worlds: her affluent, mostly white private school and her impoverished neighborhood.

One night after a party, Starr watches as her friend, Khalil, is pulled over, shot and killed by a white police officer. She struggles with the risks of coming forward as a witness, as protests erupt in her neighborhood.

• from The New York Times review by Alexandra Alter
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