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Ain't Burned All the Bright by Jason Reynolds
5.0
challenging emotional inspiring reflective tense medium-paced

Truly outstanding. A collaboration of word, art, breath, and heart that captures a single moment and several lifetimes. Through three long sentences and hundreds of pieces of art, Jason Reynolds and Jason Griffin guide, jostle, and ease you through the stifling, joyous, vulnerable, terrifying, gorgeous, hopeful strength and connection of a Black family in America in 2020. Highly recommended for art lovers, poetry readers, Americans, and humans.