Concrete Rose

Worldwide phenomenon Angie Thomas revisits Backyard Heights seventeen years earlier than the occasions of The Hate U Give on this searing and poignant exploration of Black boyhood and manhood.

If there’s one factor seventeen-year-old Maverick Carter is aware of, it’s that an actual man takes care of his household. Because the son of a former gang legend, Mav does that the one means he is aware of how: dealing for the King Lords. With this cash he might help his mother, who works two jobs whereas his dad’s in jail.

Life’s not good, however with a fly girlfriend and a cousin who all the time has his again, Mav’s received every part underneath management.

Till, that’s, Maverick finds out he’s a father.

Abruptly he has a child, Seven, who depends upon him for every part. Nevertheless it’s not really easy to sling dope, end faculty, and increase a baby. So when he’s supplied the possibility to go straight, he takes it. In a world the place he’s anticipated to quantity to nothing, perhaps Mav can show he’s totally different.

When King Lord blood runs by your veins, although, you possibly can’t simply stroll away. Loyalty, revenge, and duty threaten to tear Mav aside, particularly after the brutal homicide of a beloved one. He’ll have to determine for himself what it actually means to be a person.