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Andrea Nicole Livingstone born in July 10, year 1985, known professionally as Nic Stone, is an American author of high school and young adult fiction, best known for her debut novel Dear Martin and her high school debut Clean Getaway. Her novels have been translated into six different languages.
Stone was born and raised in suburban Atlanta, Georgia. She has a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Spelman College. She is African-American and openly bisexual. After college, she worked as a teen mentor and moved to Israel for a few years.
During a trip to Israel in 2008, Stone discovered that she wanted to be a writer when she met a family with a story that intrigued her. Stone wrote her first young adult novel in 2017, inspired by American young adult author Veronica Roth’s Divergent series, as it was the first series with black characters that she encountered and lived through to the end. The same book later brought him a literary agent.
Her debut novel, Dear Martin, is about a predominantly white high school senior who begins writing letters to Dr. Writing Martin Luther King Jr. after he had a dangerous encounter with racist cops sold as a proposal in a contract of two books and was published by Crown Books for Young Readers in 2017.
Stone explained that he began writing his debut novel, Dear Martin, following the death of Jordan Davis, a 17-year-old black high school student who was fatally got shot by a white man in a hate crime in year 2017. The book debuted on the New York Times Best Seller List at #4. It was also selected as a finalist for the 2017 William C. Morris Award and received a rating of Booklist stars. It has been published and translated in Germany, Brazil, Indonesia, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Turkey and Romania. Two years after its initial publication, Dear Martin again hit #1 on The New York Times Young Adult Paperback List for February 2020.
A sequel, Dear Justyce, about an incarcerated teenager who is tried for murder, was released in October 2020. Stone says that she had no intention of writing a sequel. but encouraged by her publisher, she decided to write a book about a “black boy that everybody is afraid of”.
| Book | Dear Martin |
| Author | Viola Davis |
| Language | English |
| Size | 2.3 MB |
| Pages | 240 |
| Category | Novel |
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Justyce McAllister is a well-behaved kid, an honor student, and always willing to help a friend, but none of that matters to the cop who just handcuffed him. Although he has left his rough neighborhood behind, he cannot escape the scorn of his old classmates nor the teasing of his new classmates.
Justyce looks to the teachings of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. for answers. But do they still hold on? She starts a journal for Dr. Rey to find out.
Then comes the day Justyce is driving with his best friend Manny, windows down, music loud, loud, igniting the ire of an off-duty white cop standing next to them. words fly. Shots are fired. Justyce and Manny gets caught in the crosshairs. In the media fallout, it’s the Justyce who is under attack.
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This is a simple, yet stark book about the very messy, real topics. On staying sane in a crazy world.
Author’s Voice NAILED Justyce – I’ve never seen anyone sound more like a teenager who actually wasn’t a teenager. Justyce is a nice guy, but not too much nice. I love him in the opening scene when he helps his ex girlfriend drunk and you can really see how impressed he is with a hot girl who is interested in him and his very “manly” reactions towards her but also his innate reactions Decency because even if she makes it difficult, he will do the right thing.
The book dives headlong into debates about a lot of uncomfortable things, and I like the number of different perspectives it offers through its characters, some endearing, some highly unpleasant. Jus is surrounded by people, black and white, and those who help him and those who hold him back come from both sides of segregation. I love that there is a character that represents each different philosophical perspective, but none of them, ONE, seems flat or one-dimensional or “created to play a purpose.”
The amazing magic trick this book employs is that while it never breaks the tone and is spoken only through the voice of a teenager, the language and the way ideas are presented also have a gravity that the camera zooms in on. and it makes you feel the weight of being part of a very important moment in history.
It inspires you (you, me, all of us) to be better, even (especially) when the people around us are worse off.
Stone’s protagonist is the uber-bright Justyce in his senior year at an Atlanta high school. The thing is, he’s black. As such, he was mistakenly arrested early in the novel. He and his best friend were shot to death after an alleged racial profiling incident. His best friend is dead and Justyce is forced to testify against the shooter at trial.
Justyce also has to deal with reverse racial issues. He falls in love with a fellow student, his interlocutor, who is Caucasian. However, Justyce’s mother doesn’t like the idea of Justyce having a white girlfriend. As such, there is a lot of drama in Justyce’s life and a lot to learn from.
Justyce keeps a journal in which she remembers Dr. Martin Luther King writing (hence the name of the book). She tries to learn to emulate King’s nonviolence, but finds it incredibly difficult. On the verge of adulthood and enrollment at Yale, Justyce sees the world as a hostile place for him as a young black man. During this last year he experiences several incidents of racism. He accepts this while he is understandably upset at the same time.
By empathizing with the protagonist, I saw how difficult life can be for young black men in America. Even when they try to be the best and do their best, they have to deal with problem after problem through misunderstandings and profiling. Many will only see them as bullies and will not understand their attempts to rebel. of course dr Rey all this from experience, a fact that Justyce never escapes as he writes the diary entries.
We can all learn from those who have needs they don’t deserve. Justyce doesn’t deserve to be called a “bad guy” just because of the color of his skin. While we like to think that as a society we have transcended race, the effects of race have persisted for far too long. Stone’s writing and imagination bring these effects to life. In a previous life he was involved in youth mentoring projects. He shows. Justyce’s character is a realistic Everyman who doesn’t deserve his suffering.
This book is suitable for young adults who are trying to understand the world. However, one must be aware of language and difficult topics. As a coming-of-age book, Stone’s work makes no attempt to gloss over the injustices of the world. His purpose is to enlighten and empower with knowledge, but sometimes it seems that knowledge is insufficient. Justyce’s ending is happy, hopeful, and full of promise, and one can only hope that the denouement reaches every black youth in America. It’s sad to hear what it takes to get there.
In recent years there has been a torrent of books on racial and police brutality. One could not read more than books on the subject and still not compete with the available books. What a big problem: too many books on important subjects. I wish these books were useless because the problem was solved.
Anyway, who if you can “enjoy” a book like this, I enjoyed Nic Stone’s telling of a tale of tragedy more than almost anyone else. There are obvious comparisons both in other recent books and in actual cases in real America. Nic Stone writes for the young reader in a simple way that is never to nta or too easy. She handles all the nuances and pitfalls of her subject as she writes the story of Justyce and her friend Manny, two black kids in a liberal, somewhat elitist school, and how they deal with casual, subtle, everyday racialization, microaggressions, and the kind most obvious and deadly.
The point of view alternates between the regular third-person narration of Justyce’s inner workings and the second-person letters/diary to “Dear Martin” or Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. speaking on race while black students sit uncomfortable or angry, but they certainly don’t feel “safe” about race even though they have a black teacher. There is confusion throughout the package for our protagonist, in the way his friends act, the racial issues that come with dating, the always difficult world of being a teenager. He escapes by writing honest letters to MLK, and here he feels safe enough to speak his mind. But can even Dr. help King Justyce when the world comes crashing down?
Ultimately, this is an uplifting story with characters growing up in the face of the dire circumstances and the stereotypes that threaten to hold them back. It’s worth everyone’s time.
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