NEW-PUNCHING THE AIR

I listened to the audio book narrated by Ethan Herisse. This was a really strong, moving novel in verse. It is a book about race and the way the judicial system and prison system in America disproportionately fails and oppresses black people. It talks racial profiling and prison abolition, but also poetry and art. Amal Shahid has been forced into all kinds of stereotypes by his white prosecutors-- thug, criminal, monster --but what he really is, is a boy and an artist.

A very serious and deep read (or listen). Incredibly powerful with fantastic language and flow.

4.5

The judicial system stresses me out.
Children shouldn't be in prison.