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While The Hate U Give contains graphic descriptions of violence and some minor sexual content, it’s an eye-opening, honest exploration of the continuing day-to-day reality of systemic racism in America. This appears when you meet Carlos, Starr’s uncle who works at the same precinct as the cop who shot her friend.

Black professionals caught between their jobs and their community.

Starr’s neighbors support her and her family otherwise, they wouldn’t have had the opportunity to succeed.

Communities who help each other survive when the rest of the world’s written them off.

Her family is complex and large, but they all stand by Starr as she’s forced to relive the worst moment of her life over and over again. This novel portrays Starr’s parents and family members as people who love and support each other.

Loving parents who sacrifice everything so their children can have lead better lives.

A world with little opportunity and the reality of gang violence.īut it also gives readers the opportunity to see the aspects of poor black communities rarely shown in the media. Does Starr stay silent and protect herself? Or does she speak out for Khalili and for justice?Īn honest novel, The Hate U Give provides a glimpse into a world where people are judged by a glance.

The whole world wants to know what happened that night. To Starr, Khalili was her friend who loved his grandmother and bubble baths. To the newspapers and her friends at prep school, Khalil’s a thug and suspected gang member. Unarmed and black, Khalil’s death makes headlines. That is, until she watches her childhood friend’s, Khalil, death. Starr, a black teen, finds an uneasy balance as she moves between her town worlds. The Hate U Give tells the story of sixteen-year-old Starr Carter, who lives in a poor neighborhood while attending a privilege private prep school. This emotionally-charged, addictive, and wonderful novel is one the best reads of 2017.

There’s a reason The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas was the longest running YA novel at the #1 spot of the New York Times bestseller list.