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by Mark Oshiro

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Moss Jeffries is many things—considerate student, devoted son, loyal friend and affectionate boyfriend, enthusiastic nerd.

But sometimes Moss still wishes he could be someone else—someone without panic attacks, someone whose father was still alive, someone who hadn’t become a rallying point for a community because of one horrible night.

And most of all, he wishes he didn’t feel so stuck.

Moss can’t even escape at school—he and his friends are subject to the lack of funds and crumbling infrastructure at West Oakland High, as well as constant intimidation by the resource officer stationed in their halls. That was even before the new regulations—it seems sometimes that the students are treated more like criminals.

Something will have to change—but who will listen to a group of teens?

When tensions hit a fever pitch and tragedy strikes again, Moss must face a difficult give in to fear and hate or realize that anger can actually be a gift.

At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

80 pages, Kindle Edition

Published April 10, 2018

About the author

MARK OSHIRO is the queer Latinx, Hugo-nominated writer of the online Mark Does Stuff universe (Mark Reads and Mark Watches), where he analyzes book and TV series. He was the nonfiction editor of Queers Destroy Science Fiction! and the co-editor of Speculative Fiction 2015, and is the President of the Con or Bust Board of Directors. When not writing/recording reviews or editing, Oshiro engages in social activism online and offline. Anger is a Gift is his debut YA contemporary fiction novel.

Reviews

[Jerome Yau · Rating 3 out of 5]

I finished the whole book in 3 weeks, overall I think the book is ok. Not bad because it talks about life in school, and in life outside of school as a teenager, I can imagine many things that happens in the book. The main character is a gay, and in the book, almost everyone can accept that fact, and almost no one is discriminate about gay. But racism does exist in the book, and it is one of the main theme that's in the book, and that's actually one of the reason why I don't like it, because it makes me feel sad, which is the feeling that I hate a lot

[Kristen · Rating 4 out of 5]

Timely read: Moss' dad was murdered by an Oakland police officer (sound afmiliar?). Students rallying to protest the police presence (and how they are treated) in their Oakland high school. Add to all of that, Moss is gay and has panic attacks due to his father's death and the way the media portrayed him.

[Triciareader · Rating 5 out of 5]

I want to say that this is a simple tale ... but only in that it doesn't twist backwards and forwards and trip you up with surprises. It is a powerful, complex story, about Now and Before; about death and life; about first love; about PTSD and police brutality - incidentally and deliberately about being brown.

I wish I could get this on ... every list ever... of 'To Read' especially, specifically in small and/or rural towns across America.

We are all human.