By Tony Medina
Illustrated by Stacey Robinson & John Jennings
I read this graphic novel for a book club--it is a powerful, intense story. This description is from Library Journal:
Alfonso's playing Hamlet's ghost-father in his school's hip-hop version of the play while hoping for a second role as Danetta's boyfriend. But buying his first suit, he becomes a real ghost when a police officer mistakes a coat hanger for a weapon and shoots him. In the afterlife, he awakens in a subway train among other ghosts, who share their own experiences with police brutality. A gut-punching trip into a Black Lives Matter story, with black-and-white art.
(January 1, 2018)
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