You guys. This book. Forget every other recommendation I've ever given you, and get this one ASAP. Block out a day or a weekend or a whole week if that's what it takes, and read it without stopping. Prepare to have your own identity wrecked (it's all about race, and it will truly wreck you) and your privilege brought into the spotlight (uncomfortable but SO NECESSARY) and your heart just torn a million different ways as you relate to, love, hate, root for, and want to kill these characters. WHAT A STORY. Picoult tackles the hard topics in the most powerful way, and I cannot put enough good words around this one. Wow.