Another friend urged me to read that YA novel he found the writing superior to The Hate U Give (2017) and couldn’t understand why it wasn’t garnering equal attention. I decided not to blog about The Truth of Right Now (2017) by Kara Lee Corthron when I read it last fall. But in the end, I decided something needed to be said because I’ve noticed a disturbing trend in publishing: novels by Black authors about police violence against Black boys where White girls take center stage. Few people thanked me for pointing out the issues I had with All American Boys (though many were quick to praise Jason Reynolds for his “gracious” response), and I didn’t want to become known for “targeting” or “picking on” Black authors when so few of us manage to get published.
When a friend asked me last fall to address the problems she found in Dear Martin, I hedged.
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