This is a young adult contemporary realistic fiction about Morgan Parker. The main character is named Morgan and this is her story of her junior year in a Christian high school and being clinically depressed and is coming from a summer where she had suicidal thoughts, so trigger warning. We are inside Morgan's head as she navigates a all white school in a conservative republican small town in California. We see her but heads with her parents when she "acts out" and they just don't get her.
She has a group of friends who are there when she needs them but she doesn't want to get to close to anyone. She meets a guy at her art class and they hit it off and he becomes another friend who is there when she needs to talk. She loves emo music and having a theme with her fashion every year.
She is also tired of learning the same thing and not more about Black history. She sets up a booth and schools her white classmates about the Black Panther movement. This is also set in 2008 when Barack Obama won the presidency. There was an almost sex scene which was really gross and it took me a minute to wrap my head around that and there was a lot of underage drinking and drug use.
I will have to read more of this author's work.
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