She can be ruthlessly selfish and yet at the core, she is a deeply At some level, Brianna is all of us and then I love how the inner conflicts of her mind shape up majorĮvents in the story, I also love how she makes mistakes – a lot of them and isĮven unwilling to learn from them. All it takes is one of us messing up, and suddenly all of us messed up.” Angie Thomas “ Let’s be real: We’re black kids from one of the worst neighborhoods in the city. But at the same time, she is a person whom you can easily relate to, whom you can easily be friends with and, whom you definitely become invested in. She is stubborn and hot-headed, she has her own idea of right and wrong, and is immature and impulsive. But will her actions reflect her intentions? This is the powerful story of a young girl who dares to dream big and who makes some stupid and some unavoidable mistakes along the way.īri is one of the most flawed yet powerful women that I’ve read about in a long time. With no food on the table and no electricity in her home, Bri wants to do her bit by putting money on the table. Now, Bri has the name and reputation of her father to live up to.īut as she forays into the world of rapping, Bri realizes that she has a lot to worry about – what kind of image she is creating? Will people read too much into her lyrics and assume too much about her? Back when she was just a small kid, her father – the famous underground rap legend – was killed in a gang war. Rapping is in her blood and she dreams of becoming one of the greatest rappers of all time. Used to the language but once you are in the flow, it’s a really smooth rideīrianna or Bri as everyone calls her is a sixteen-year-old girl from a black neighborhood. It might take a while for regular Indian readers to get Lot of slangs and uses an informal type of English that is typically associated The book is written in a simple language but it does have a Uniquely interesting world of rappers and rapping. Finally, expect a book that takes us into the Expect a book that is much differentįrom your regular cliché YA. Expect a book that is as much about diversity as it Read on to know moreĪbout my thoughts on Angie’s latest, On the Come Up a book that shouldĮxpect a young adult fiction that tells us a heart-warming

Herīooks are powerful and so vocal about the stark realities of black people inĪmerica that it shocks me every time that I read her. Shows us a world that is inherently different from ours and yet so similar. Give and this year it is her latest that has me completely hooked. Last year, I was bowled over by her debut novel, The Hate U The drug dealers in my neighborhood aren’t struggling. Meanwhile, Aunt Pooh’s doing everything we’ve been told not to do, and she’s giving us food when we need it. That’s how it goes though. Here my brother is, doing everything right, and nothing’s coming from it.

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