Experience the explosive performance of Cass the Band. Raucous and funny scenes with friends and family depict Bri in her element: witty, combative and caring. One of "On The Come Up"’s greatest pleasures is Thomas’ portrait of the artist as a young woman, a fully-rounded teenage character with crushes and romantic disappointments, who suffers from a friend fallout and finds comfort in TV and junk food with her brother.Īt times the pace of the novel is uneven, veering from crisis to crisis without sufficient time for readers to reflect and absorb. But Bri’s story is utterly compelling from first to last, and will more than satisfy ardent fans of "The Hate U Give. Back at the historic Mendofila Park located in the heart of Castries. One way is through camaraderie and community. The incident is filmed, goes viral and ignites a social-justice movement with Bri as the uneasy center. When she unleashes a brilliant cry of rage after the fact, different groups try to claim her song for their own purposes: White parents point to it as a sign of dangerous rebellion and gang members use it as a call to arms. How can Bri speak her truth and make her art in a world where a young black person’s speech is policed and suppressed at every turn? The central conflict arises when two racist security guards at Bri’s school throw her to the ground, assuming she’s a drug dealer.
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