![]() ![]() When she subsequently goes AWOL, it is left to Mav to assume the role of carer and provider, a role that may or may not be compatible with Mav’s sideline in handling gang initiations, recruitment and selling weed.Ĭoncrete Rose is yet another blazingly astute novel from Angie Thomas, a writer whose gift for natural dialogue is surely unparalleled in contemporary YA literature. ![]() Here, Thomas turns the clock back to his naive teenage years, before the arrival of Starr, but three months after the birth of his son, who is practically dumped on him by the traumatised mother. Maybe it’s time for this self-confessed ‘drug-dealing, gangbanging, high-school flunk out’ to go straight.įans will remember the character of Maverick Carter, father to the inspirational Starr, and worldly possessor of a hard-bitten wisdom. ![]() Firmly entrenched in gang life, an unexpectedly early fatherhood shocks the 17-year-old into reconsidering life’s priorities. ![]() In this prequel to her outstanding debut novel, The Hate U Give, Thomas presents us with a morally conflicted young man named Mav. Having previously tackled institutional racism and stereotyping, here she turns her gimlet eye on the complexities of black manhood. Concrete Rose by Angie Thomas is the third novel from this brilliant chronicler of young, urban black experience. ![]()
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