![]() ![]() Stone’s story examines the various inequities some young black men and women experience through the American juvenile justice system. ![]() He’s not perfect like his childhood friend Justyce, protagonist from Dear Martin and current pre-law student at Yale, and this distinction was an important component Stone sought to amplify after being inspired by two young fans of Dear Martin who didn’t see themselves in Justyce. Quan, first introduced in Stone’s Dear Martin, confessed to a crime he’s certain he didn’t commit. ![]() Voted as one of NPR’s Best Books of the Year, and a nominee for YALSA’s Best Fiction for Young Adults 2021, Nic Stone’s Dear Justyce ensnares readers in America’s juvenile justice system and leaves them asking what can be done to change it.Ĭan Quan overcome what so many around him could not? ![]()
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