![]() ![]() ![]() I’ve seen-on Goodreads primarily-that Anger is a Gift is compared to and read next to Angie Thomas’ The Hate U Give, Adib Khorram’s Darius the Great is Not Okay, and those are some rough comparisons. ![]() This is an incredibly powerful, moving story but some of the minutiae of writing gets in the way of it really shining. There’s a lot to like about Anger is a Gift, but there’s a lot to criticize as well. Even though he’s surrounded by a close crew of supportive friends and has recently met a practically perfect boy he might be falling for, life isn’t going great for Moss: a series of violent incidents at his school force Moss to harness his anger and fuel it into activism. Moss, who attends an underfunded and overpoliced high school, has regularly suffered panic attacks since his father was shot by a cop years ago. Then I heard about Anger is a Gift by Mark Oshiro, which intersects them and comes recommended by Adam Silvera and decided that it was the right book to kick off June. I usually try to read a higher percentage of LGBTQ+ books during Pride Month, but since there’s so much going on in the world right now that Pride Month is, at best, the third thing on a person’s mind, I pivoted to find a novel that speaks to issues of police brutality and the reality of Black lives. ![]()
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