The Hate U Give meets Just Mercy in this unflinching yet uplifting
first novel that explores the racist injustices in the American
justice system.
Every week,
seventeen-year-old Tracy Beaumont writes letters to Innocence X,
asking the organization to help her father, an innocent Black man on
death row. After seven years, Tracy is running out of time–her dad
has only 267 days left. Then the unthinkable happens. The police
arrive in the night, and Tracy’s older brother, Jamal, goes from
being a bright, promising track star to a “thug” on the run,
accused of killing a white girl. Determined to save her brother,
Tracy investigates what really happened between Jamal and Angela down
at the Pike. But will Tracy and her family survive the uncovering of
the skeletons of their Texas town’s racist history that still haunt
the present?
Fans of Nic Stone,
Tiffany D. Jackson, and Jason Reynolds won’t want to miss this
provocative and gripping debut.