3.5 stars

it’s a powerful and extremely timely book right now especially!

it shares the struggles of a younger sibling who lost his older brother do to a police shooting.
showing that Black peoples don’t just struggle with racism in the usa -this book is set in toronto- but that simply being Black makes life more difficult.

a couple of times copes where called by neighbors simply to complain.
it also shows that the fear of the police force is sadly also not USA made.

overall it was a well done story but i really struggled with the writing style.
it’s told in those back and forth of what’s happening now and then jumps back to the past and goes back and forth.
it could be that because it’s a novella and under 200 pages that i had issues with the back and forth because i felt as if there was never really the right amount of time spend in either timeline so that i could really get a feel of it all before we already moved on.

but i do think it’s a well plotted book overall and defiantly worth a read!