AUDIOBOOK VERSION IS HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.

I can listen to Jason Reynolds all day 🙌🏽. Accolades to the full cast of the audiobook, so lyrical, so soothing, magical, and incredible. The illustrations too were so captivating and beautiful. I almost gave way to tears because of its message.

It's incredible how simple the words and dissertation are, but carries so much weight and depth that pierced into the heart.

"I'm sitting here wondering why my mother won't change the channel and why the news won't change the story and why the story won't change into something new instead of the every-hour rerun about how we won't change the world or the way we treat the world or the way we treat each other. "

Best believe I'll be using this for a meditation session 🧘🏽‍♀️.

A mash-up of art and text for teens that viscerally captures what it is to be Black. In America. A book for everyone's who has endured 2020 (when the pandemic began).