With this money he can help his mom, who works two jobs while his dad’s in prison. As the son of a former gang legend, Mav does that the only way he knows how: dealing for the King Lords. If you’ve read The Hate U Give and/or watched the movie, I feel this book gives some much needed insight on the Carter family.Synopsis: If there’s one thing seventeen-year-old Maverick Carter knows, it’s that a real man takes care of his family. It wasn’t an easy journey to the Maverick we meet as Star’s father, but just like Star he knows what it’s like to get caught in the middle of two worlds. I ABSOLUTELY LOVED to see the bond between mother and son! He may trip up a few times but his mother never gives up on him. She isn’t going to do the work of raising Seven but she’s going to make sure Maverick aka her baby, knows she’s there for support. Maverick’s mother is a beacon of light in the storm. In many ways Maverick is healing generational trauma by choosing a different path even if it is by way of tough love from his Mom. Concrete Rose advocates for young black men, we simply do NOT have many (If any) books on our shelves with this representation. Even while feeling overwhelmed and as if he wasn’t cut out for parenthood, he never gives up on trying to get it right. I LIVED for the nurturing moments he has with his baby boy Seven. We also see him come into his own as a young single father who has to juggle his responsibilities. We see Maverick’s internal struggle with the loyalty he feels to King, the friend who brought him into the street gang & leaving it all behind. Working in the neighborhood store/garden, going to school and selling drugs while being a father is more than what maverick can handle. An opportunity to get his life back on track and provide for his three month old son Seven. Maverick must decide whether he will continue to live life earning money on the streets seeking drugs or take an out that is being offered to him. Things get further complicated when a girl he slept with turns out to be pregnant with his first born. This is how Maverick goes about bringing a second stream of income while being a student. The same gang his father belongs to and has gained much notoriety in. Watching his mother hold down a job to put food on the table, Maverick joins the King Lords. Maverick is in High School when we meet him, he’s living with his mother and his father is incarcerated. This was a fast paced character driven emotionally charged story. In Concrete Rose we get Mavericks story on his upbringing, young adult life, and the circumstances that eventually led to him becoming a father of two at the age of 17. In 2017 Angie Thomas introduced us to Maverick Carter in The Hate U Give as the father of Star, Seven & Sekani Carter. GOODREADS | BARNES & NOBLE | AMAZON | LIBRO.FM ( MY REFERRAL LINK)
Title: Concrete Rose (The Hate U Give #0)
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