The Hate U Give follows the story of sixteen-year-old Star, a girl who is caught between two lives: her family life in a gang-controlled neighborhood and her fancy prep school life, where she dates a white boy and pretends her home life doesn’t exist. Okay so, apart from stressing how much you need to read it, let me tell you a little about how enjoyable the read itself was. Please, do yourself a favor and put this one at the top of your TBR stack, and encourage everyone else to do the same. Moreover, it provided me with an even stronger sense of empathy. Although I believed there wasn’t a lot of education left for me on this particular matter, I learned so much from this book. I have always been on the right side of things when it comes to the issue of police brutality in our nation, and so I very wrongly thought that this story could wait - it couldn’t. Thomas won the very first We Need Diverse Books' Walter Dean Myers Grant, awarded in 2015.I can’t stress how important this book is, especially at a time like this (though I would also argue that it is far overdue).
She is a B.F.A. graduate from Belhaven University where she studied creative writing. Knowing budding talent when she saw it, her third-grade teacher asked Angie to read one of her stories to the class every Friday after lunchtime.Īngie Thomas was also a teen rapper-a feature in her second novel, On the Come Up. After that traumatic experience, Angie turned to books to escape into another world, soon using her own imagination to write stories. At the age of six, she was caught amidst gunfire in her neighborhood while out riding her bike. From a young age, she was drawn to storytelling. Photo of the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ) "Black Live Matter" mural posted by Author of The Hate U Give: Angie ThomasĪngie Thomas was raised and still remains, in Jackson, Mississippi.
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