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Jun 02, 2020
absolutely one of my favorite books. author does an incredible job switching between points of view. with everything that is going on in the world right now, especially the riots, i highly recommend this book. people often don't like to hear about the stuff that happened back then. they believe that if we ignore our past, it will go away. our past will never leave, we can't change it. privileged white Americans did truly horrific things to African people and instead of learning from our actions and striving to be better, we try to ignore it. we try to avoid subjects about massacres or race riots or anything to do with Nazis because they are ugly words. the truth is that we shouldn't hide from the words that describe terrible events because they were truly terrible events. they defined our past, but they don't have to define our future. the only thing that we can do is strive to be better. this book really opened my eyes to the problems that i have been blind to. the author does a great job at making this story historically accurate and having characters added into the story who are relatable, would encourage young readers to learn about problems that we can face even in today's society.