"This is the coolest book I've read, possibly ever. “the illustrations for this book were rendered in paint markers, sharpies, spray paint, ball-point pen, pencil, gaffer tape, scotch tape, label stickers, felt-tip pen, packing tape, masking tape, and acrylic paint in moleskine notebooks.” That’s not an artist’s note, that’s from the copyright page. It's truly a marvel, meant to be held and looked at."
Publisher Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books
Publication Date 2022-01-11
Section Young Adult / All Staff Suggestions / Suggestions for Kids / Lily R.
Format Hardcover
ISBN 9781534439467
Prepare yourself for something unlike anything: A smash-up of art and text for teens that viscerally captures what it is to be Black. In America. Right Now. Written by #1 New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Jason Reynolds.
Jason Reynolds and his best bud, Jason Griffin had a mind-meld. And they decided to tackle it, in one fell swoop, in about ten sentences, and 300 pages of art, this piece, this contemplation-manifesto-fierce-vulnerable-gorgeous-terrifying-WhatIsWrongWithHumans-hope-filled-hopeful-searing-Eye-Poppingly-Illustrated-tender-heartbreaking-how-The-HECK-did-They-Come-UP-with-This project about oxygen. And all of the symbolism attached to that word, especially NOW.
And so for anyone who didn’t really know what it means to not be able to breathe, REALLY breathe, for generations, now you know. And those who already do, you’ll be nodding yep yep, that is exactly how it is.
