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Nov 08, 2014Chapel_Hill_TishaW rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
I really enjoyed this book about a young African-American teen named Tariq who is shot by a white man, Jack Franklin. Kekla Magoon tells what happened and the fallout afterwards in the local community and individuals connected to Tariq through short chapters told from different characters' voices. You get a compelling inside look at each person's personal reaction through the lens of their relationship to Tariq and their motives, whether positive or negative. In doing so, Magoon paints a thoughtful, complex picture of an emotionally and racially charged death. Readers are kept in suspense throughout the story as to the truth about disputed details of what happened and as to whom Tariq's allegiances - and therefore his own motives for his actions - belonged.