Prepare yourself for something unlike anything: A smash-up of art and text for teens that viscerally captures what it is to be Black. In America. Right Now. Written by #1 New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Jason Reynolds. Jason Reynolds and his best bud, Jason Griffin had a mind-meld. And they decided to tackle it, in one fell swoop, in about ten sentences, and 300 pages of art, this piece, this contemplation-manifesto-fierce-vulnerable-gorgeous-terrifying-WhatIsWrongWithHumans-hope-filled-hopeful-searing-Eye-Poppingly-Illustrated-tender-heartbreaking-how-The-HECK-did-They-Come-UP-with-This project about oxygen. And all of the symbolism attached to that word, especially NOW.
And so for anyone who didn't really know what it means to not be able to breathe,
REALLY breathe,
for generations, now you know. And those who already do, you'll be nodding yep yep, that is
exactly how it is.
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Atheneum Books
Published: 01/11/2022
ISBN: 9781534439467
Pages: 384
Weight: 2.04lbs
Size: 8.56h x 6.01w x 1.25d
Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 11/01/2021
Publishers Weekly 11/15/2021
Booklist 12/01/2021 pg. 47
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