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A Spy in the Struggle by Aya de León
5.0

All of [a:Aya de León|4329070|Aya de León|https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/user/u_50x66-632230dc9882b4352d753eedf9396530.png]'s books are five star reads to me. I love her style of Black feminist political romance. The "spy" is Yolanda Vance, a rookie FBI attorney, who didn't sign up to be a field agent, but was tapped for a surveillance gig because of her race and age. The targeted activist group is Red, Black, and GREEN (RBG), a Bay Area youth-oriented environmental nonprofit--obvious terrorists duping teens into Black identity militancy.

I say that ironically, but bootstrapping high academic and athletic achiever Yolanda thinks the RBG kids are whiners, who inaccurately blame all their woes on racism. It's not like she has a lot of faith in white people, but having attended boarding school and a historically women's college, she's been in majority white communities since her early teens.

Getting to know the RBG crew and seeing how police react to a rally help Yolanda see what she's been missing while living the elite life, which of course doesn't go over well with the FBI. Plus there's a dude...