Stone moves beyond character archetypes into fully realized humans with a depth and fragility that's sometimes lost in current-events novels. Dear Martin author Nic Stone manages not only to maintain the characters' humanity in what could easily become a paint-by-number pulled-from-the-headlines story, but also breathes a realness into each character so they become just like people readers already know. Parents should be prepared to talk about current events, the Black Lives Matter movement, underage drinking, and stereotypes.Įndearing and painfully realistic, this could be a news story any day in America. There's some swearing (including "f-k" and "s-t"), teen drinking, and grief. There's violence, including boys getting into fights with punches thrown and lips bloodied, police brutality, a teen shot, an officer killed offstage, and racist experiences. In the months that follow, Justyce confronts injustices and micro-aggressions he experiences at his mostly White prep school and the fallout from his brief detainment.
He struggles to reconcile the fact that he's a "good kid" with suddenly being in police handcuffs. Parents need to know that Nic Stone's Dear Martin tells the story of an Ivy League-bound African American student named Justyce who becomes a victim of racial profiling.
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