![]() If it’s a nod to Ferguson and the fatal shooting of Michael Brown, it’s poorly placed.) (2014 is an oddly specific time to set this, and I never really figured out why that was the year of choice here. ![]() Some parts of the book feel much older, others feel very recent, but I think the whole thing would have fit better in the 80s or earlier. Something about the time period never really settled for me. This is partly because it’s set in 2014, not 1974. It’s a good story and a very clever take on the novel that made Stephen King a household name. Cue trauma-induced psychic powers, a brief redemption in the form of the cute (Black) boy next door, and total embarrassment at the hands of (white) mean girl bullies leading to chaos, destruction and lots of very heavy blood. class and the resulting afro reveals her secret to her classmates and the rest of her tiny Georgia town. One day Maddy’s hair gets wet during P.E. ![]() Maddy has all the same problems as Carrie, but she’s also been forced to pass as white for her entire life by her racist white father, who ritualistically straightens her hair every week with an old school stovetop straightening comb, complete with deliberate ear and neck burns. Instead of sheltered, abused, religiously traumatized Carrie White, this book focuses on Madison Washington. The author set out to write this as an homage, only shifting the tone of the main character’s terror, not the source. The blurbs call this a Black version of Stephen King’s Carrie, and they’re mostly right. ![]()
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