The 2018 One Book, One Community selection is The Hate U GIve by Angie Thomas.
Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter navigates between the poverty-stricken neighborhood she has grown up in and the upper-crust suburban prep school she attends. Her life is up-ended when she is the sole witness to a police officer shooting her best friend, Khalil, who turns out to have been unarmed during the confrontation – but may or may not have been a drug dealer. As Starr finds herself even more torn between the two vastly different worlds she inhabits, she also has to contend with speaking her truth and, in the process, trying to stay alive herself.
Angie Thomas will be on campus to discuss the book at the Faulkner Performing Arts Center on Tuesday, March 26, 2019 at 6:30P.
The book is also being made into a movie by 20th century fox that will come out on October 19.
If you are reading or going to read the book and would like to go to the movie and/or the lecture as a group please indicate your interest on this link: www.volunteersignup.org/YC4HB
“I have already read the book and it is very powerful and timely for the current political climate.” -Michael