Dear Martin
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By Nic Stone
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‘Absolutely incredible, honest, gut-wrenching! A must-read!’ Angie Thomas, author of The Hate U Give
‘?Painfully timely and deeply moving, this is the novel the next generation should be reading’ Jodi Picoult
‘Justyce’s story is earnest, funny, achingly human, and unshakably hopeful. I am forever changed.’ Becky Albertalli, author of Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda
‘Raw and gripping’ Jason Reynolds, author of Long Way Down
’A powerful, wrenching, and compulsively readable story that lays bare the history, and the present, of racism in America’ John Green, author of The Fault in our Stars
Raw, captivating, and undeniably real, Nic Stone boldly tackles American race relations in this #1 New York Times bestselling novel.
Justyce McAllister is top of his class and set for the Ivy League – but none of that matters to the police officer who just put him in handcuffs. And despite leaving his rough neighbourhood behind, he can’t escape the scorn of his former peers or the ridicule of his new classmates.
Justyce looks to the teachings of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. for answers. But do they hold up anymore? He starts a journal to Dr. King to find out.
Then comes the day Justyce goes driving with his best friend, Manny, windows rolled down, music turned up – way up, sparking the fury of a white off-duty police officer beside them. Words fly. Shots are fired. Justyce and Manny are caught in the crosshairs. In the media fallout, it’s Justyce who is under attack.
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Reviews
Very good and thought-provoking book, exploring race and class in America through the protagonists' experiences.
I loved this book. The story will stay with me for a long time. Justyce is struggling to understand racism in today’s society, and finds himself getting angrier and angrier with how black people are treated. Justyce imagines how Martin Luther King would react to incidences he witnesses in his life. There are some characters that made me so angry, and others that jumped off the page as people I would like to know. I cried at this book, and it is certainly not a feel good story at all, but it may make you question and want to change the world we live in.
I thought this was a very interesting book to read, especially in such an important time for the Black Lives Matter movement. The central character experiences tragedy, pain and pressure as a young black man, some of which is intellectualised and challenged through a debate club script format. He also experiences love, which is rewarding. The epistolary sections, where he writes to Martin Luther King are interesting, even if his frustrations with King’s teachings are evident.
