![]() Agent: Elena Giovinazzo, Pippin Properties. From 1 New York Times bestselling author Jason Reynolds, a funny and rewarding (Publishers Weekly) coming-of-age novel about friendship and loyalty across neighbourhood lines and the. Snappy descriptions (the barbershop is the “black man’s country club”) and a hard-won ending round out a funny and rewarding read. Reynolds also upends tired stereotypes-Ali lives with his sister and bighearted mother, but his sometimes-absentee father isn’t a deadbeat, rather “a pretty good dude who just made some messed-up decisions”-while leaving in enough sass and grit to keep the story believable. ![]() Mine Too.) thematically addresses much more-race and class divisions in New York, taking ownership of one’s actions, and standing up for what’s right-without ever sounding preachy. But Reynolds (half of the team behind 2009’s My Name Is Jason. Set in the non-“Cosby” part of Brooklyn, in the neighborhood of Bed-Stuy, the story centers around the party incident and the evolving relationship between Ali, his best friend Noodles, and Noodles’s brother Needles (the one with “the syndrome”). ![]() ![]() The “greatest” in the title doesn’t just refer to the scene in which 15-year-old Ali defends a friend with Tourette syndrome by throwing a winning punch at a party-it also hints at what an accomplishment Reynolds’s novel is. ![]()
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