Racial justice stories
I've been looking for titles for my library that will help drive a conversation about racial justice in our community. These two titles will help with that! The first one is a young adult book. It's called "Dear Justyce" by Nic Stone. Nic won acclaim with her novel "Dear Martin" a couple of years back, which is about a young black man attending a prestigious high school in Atlanta while living in an impoverished neighborhood. That one was great and this one might be even better. It connects some of the characters from the first book to this one. This one is told mostly from the point of view of Quan, who is writing letters to Justyce because he is in jail, awaiting trial for the murder of a police officer. The story unfolds in flashbacks to different times and circumstances, which allows the reader to see how Quan came to be in such a position. There are parts of the story that are hard to read-passages about abuse and neglect, about...