The Hate U Give: The Book Everyone’s Talking About (Extended sampler)
A #1 New York Times Bestseller, William C. Morris Award Winner, National Book Awar Longlist, Printz Honor Book, and Coretta Scott King Honor Book. The Hate U Give, now a major motion picture, is a young adult novel by Angie Thomas. It follows events in the life of a 16-year-old black girl, Starr Carter, who is drawn to activism after she witnesses the police shooting of a childhood friend.
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This may be classified as YA, and it is YA appropriate, but it reads excellently well for adults. The author expertly lays out the story of the protagonist Starr's struggles to cope with the two worlds she inhabits after one of her oldest friends is killed by a police officer. It is at times heartbreaking, warm, funny, painfully honest, and true. Starr's personal reactions and both communities' reactions make for a compelling novel.
I loved, loved, loved this book!!!
It was written so beautifully and honestly. Starr Carter lived in two worlds. At home in her poverty-stricken neighborhood of Garden Heights, she is constantly in survival mode. At the private school she and her brothers attend, she is the "cool" kid.
Her world gets turned upside down when her best friend is fatally shot in front of her by a white cop. She wants to tell her story, but afraid of the implications that reverberates in her neighborhood.
It was so riveting, I couldn't tear myself away from the story. It will stay with me for a long time.
It was written so beautifully and honestly. Starr Carter lived in two worlds. At home in her poverty-stricken neighborhood of Garden Heights, she is constantly in survival mode. At the private school she and her brothers attend, she is the "cool" kid.
Her world gets turned upside down when her best friend is fatally shot in front of her by a white cop. She wants to tell her story, but afraid of the implications that reverberates in her neighborhood.
It was so riveting, I couldn't tear myself away from the story. It will stay with me for a long time.
I really loved this one. It was an easy read. I think I finished it in 4 days. But being immersed into the realities of urban black culture was very humbling. I’m black and grew up in predominantly white areas, so I related to Starr’s double life.
The issues that were talked about are things I’m aware of, but it’s so important hearing it from such a young POV. I’ll be having my teenage son read this book.