The Hate U Give
Angie Thomas, 2017
A black teenager in a mostly white school finds her voice after witnessing a police shooting—a fast, funny, furious novel about family, code-switching and speaking up.
Angie Thomas
The title expands Tupac Shakur's THUG LIFE acronym: 'The Hate U Give Little Infants Fucks Everybody'—Thomas has said it means hate fed to children returns as violence.
Feels like hope, family and grief.
The distance between tweeting outrage and speaking it out loud.
I’ve seen it happen over and over again: a black person gets killed just for being black, and all hell breaks loose. I’ve tweeted RIP hashtags, reblogged pictures on Tumblr, and signed every petition out there. I always said that if I saw it happen to somebody, I would have the loudest voice, making sure the world knew what went down.Now I am that person, and I’m too afraid to speak. Books by Angie Thomas
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