This book hurts my heart and I'm definitely not comfortable with it being classified as a fiction. This shit happening is perpetually on the news, my newsfeed and everyone is angry but nothing seems to change. Sadly, I don't see it changing under the current POTUS either. It's also startlingly relevant to the indigenous communities in Canada who are daily stereotyped and abused by institutional racism...HULK MAD! 
 This book did a great job of showing the good and bad and the real. I am honestly amazed that this is a debut novel and I'm really looking forward to her releasing more work. I particularly loved how Starr's Uncle was a cop, her boyfriend was white and her father had a criminal record but is a good father while her mother is successful despite an early pregnancy in life. Reading the interrogation reminded me a lot of how we treat sexual assault victims...it's sadly a real book talking about problems we're having today and not six generations ago.