The Hate U Give (10/10)
So the description of this caught my eye since it, you know, described my entire upbringing!
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“Starr Carter is constantly switching between two worlds -- the poor, mostly black neighborhood where she lives and the wealthy, mostly white prep school that she attends. “
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That said, I thought they did a fantastic job of bringing difficult and complex issues to the surface without the oversimplification that is so often present in much of our public discourse. No two-dimensional characters or two-dimensional issues in this one! At some point, every protagonist and antagonist let you down to some degree, which to me made the characters more real.
I was actually interviewed for this on the "Reel World Theology" podcast. More on that here: