![]() Trying to understand one another is how Jenny and Riley eventually move forward. As Riley and Jenny struggle to face the tension in their relationship, they are encouraged in different ways to communicate and understand the other’s point of view. Cameron was inexperienced he made the bad call This isn’t about race, Riley. Riley sees the death as personal, a death that could have been her own brother, and reinforces what the Black community already knows: “ will be seen as menacing and scary, as trespassers in places that certain people don’t feel they belong, as people who deserve to be questioned or confronted, or even killed because of the color of their skin” (145). From Jenny’s point of view, “ He shot first, so Kevin had to open fire. ![]() While the shooting of Justin Dwyer is a fact, the story differs depending on whose vantage point it is seen from. When authors Jo Piazza and Christine Pride first pitched their. But really, it’s a way to start the hard conversations we need to have. Although the craft of the novel quite literally switches between points of view, the complicated shooting at hand asks readers to do the same. Jo Piazza and Christine Pride’s new Philly-based novel is about a cross-racial friendship tested by the police shooting of a young Black teen. ![]()
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