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Sixteen-year-old Starr lives in two worlds: the poor neighbourhood where she was born and raised and her posh high school in the suburbs. The uneasy balance between them is shattered when Starr is the only witness to the fatal shooting of her unarmed best friend, Khalil, by a police officer. Now what Starr says could destroy her community. It could also get her killed. Inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement, this is a powerful and gripping YA novel about one girl's struggle for justice. Movie rights have been sold to Fox, with Amandla Stenberg (The Hunger Games) to star.
Angie Thomas wurde 1988 in Jackson, Mississippi geboren. Sie wuchs in der überwiegend Schwarzen Nachbarschaft Georgetown auf, in der Kriminalität und Gewalt an der Tagesordnung waren. Die Realität ihres Viertels und die rassistischen Strukturen, die dafür verantwortlich sind, prägten ihr Leben früh. Im Alter von sechs Jahren erlebte sie eine Schießerei. Nach ihrem High-School-Abschluss entschied sie, in Jackson zu bleiben und die Belhaven University zu besuchen, eine Kunsthochschule, an der...
After I finished the last page of this book and I'm highly emotional motivated.
It's the story of Starr and Khalil, former besties who didn't see each other for months now at this point and meet again at a party. After they hear gunshots they leave the party together and Starr gets a lift in Khalil's car. During the ride they'll be pulled over by a policeman. Khalil's active part ends with the cop shooting him.
Throughout the story Starr has to deal with her grief and her anger,...
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