"A must-read!" -ANGIE THOMAS, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Hate You Give
"Raw and gripping." -JASON REYNOLDS, New York Times bestselling coauthor of All American Boys Genres: African American, Criminal Justice Where does that leave Black girls? Continue reading. I support the right of artists to create freely, but with so few Black female YA authors getting published it’s frustrating to see several choosing to put the focus on Black boys and White girls. It was clear to me why this novel didn’t achieve the blockbuster status of THUG, and I wondered why such a strong writer would choose to tell this particular story. When Lily denies knowing Dari, he is brutalized by police and hospitalized. It’s a very different kind of story a White girl attempts suicide after being raped and exploited by a White male teacher at her high school when Lily meets Dari, an artistic Black boy with an abusive father and absent mother, her outlook on life changes and she invites him to move in with her and her mother.ĭari then becomes the object of desire for both mother and daughter, and the novel concludes with an ugly confrontation in the street with police. Another friend urged me to read that YA novel he found the writing superior to The Hate U Give (2017) and couldn’t understand why it wasn’t garnering equal attention. I decided not to blog about The Truth of Right Now (2017) by Kara Lee Corthron when I read it last fall. But in the end, I decided something needed to be said because I’ve noticed a disturbing trend in publishing: novels by Black authors about police violence against Black boys where White girls take center stage. Few people thanked me for pointing out the issues I had with All American Boys (though many were quick to praise Jason Reynolds for his “gracious” response), and I didn’t want to become known for “targeting” or “picking on” Black authors when so few of us manage to get published.
When a friend asked me last fall to address the problems she found in Dear Martin, I hedged.
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