![]() ![]() ![]() The first reason for me was because so often, victims in these cases are teenagers. But it was definitely a decision early on to write this from the perspective of a 16-year-old girl for several reasons. Thomas: I'm a huge young adult fiction fan anyway, and I always knew I wanted to write young adult fiction. On choosing to tell this story through the eyes of a 16-year-old And then also, you have another layer on top of that - is that sometimes as African-Americans, we have racism and bias inside ourselves and how we see other African-Americans as well. And sometime that system can be taught with African-Americans as well. The idea of how the system, you know, for police officers - and how that goes all the way back to the idea of the slave patrols with free slaves. ![]() And I really wanted to show all the sides, you know?. Tillman: That scene was a very important moment in the book. Race How Policing Has Changed For 3 Generations Of Black Police Officers ![]()
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