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194 pages, Kindle Edition
Published April 30, 2019
Set during the first Trump era, reflecting the Black Lives Matter protests and Colin Kaepernick’s kneeling episode, the story’s spotlight is on Amara, the innocent student striving to break into the real estate profession.
Two indictments stand out. First, these words on page 167: “. . . the biggest [drug] gang in the state of North Carolina—The Charlotte Police Department.” A 10-year veteran of the department is an active drug dealer. Moreover, a police officer who shoots a 21-year-old man in the back is given administrative leave with the expectation that there will be no consequences for the slaughter. “People were more worried about whether or not athletes were kneeling before a football game than they were about police murdering innocent minorities.” (p. 181)
Second, “#45 [Trump] had the country more divided than Amara had ever known it to be. Racism was rampant and hate was at al all-time high.” (p. 181)
I value these two denunciations from the perspective of an innocent, young Black woman more than the rest of the story, which unsuccessfully strains against stereotypes of Black Americans in the lower socio-economic stratum.