Dear Justyce by Nic Stone

An urgent, raw novel follows a Black teenager named Quan who grows up in a neglected neighborhood, makes choices that land him in juvenile detention and ultimately behind bars, and grapples with how the criminal-justice system, poverty, and policing shape his life and prospects; through letters, court documents, and candid reflections he contends with responsibility, trauma, and the yearning for a future beyond the cycle of violence and incarceration, while the story interrogates how society judges young Black boys and what justice really means.

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