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Nothing More Dangerous
Nothing More Dangerous | Allen Eskens
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In a small town where loyalty to family and to "your people" carries the weight of a sacred oath, defying those unspoken rules can be a deadly proposition. After fifteen years of growing up in the Ozark hills with his widowed mother, (…more)
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"People can change if they want to, but the sad truth is that humans are hardwired to be prejudiced. It's passed down from ancestors who were just trying to figure out what to fear and what to hunt. We learned to separate things into good and bad, and that particular human frailty is alive and well in every one of us. It's not a matter of IF we have prejudices - we do. It's a matter of understanding those instincts and fighting against them."

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A haunting yet deeply moving coming-of-age story swirled in prejudice, guilt and grief. Boady is a freshman at St. Ignatius High School in Jessup, Missouri. For the most part Boady is invisible, that is until he became a target of bullies, because he stuck up for an African-American girl in his class... https://www.bluestockingreviews.com/post/nothing-more-dangerous

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Nothing More Dangerous by Allen Eskens is on sale 11.12.19 and I devoured it this past weekend, thanks to an #arc from #netgalley and #mulhollandbooks

A well-written story of the summer of 1976 when a white teenage boy is awakened to the racial and social tensions in his small Missouri town.

This is going to be a fantastic story for college literature classes and book clubs to discuss!
#recommendsday