Unbeknown to her father, she is dating Chris, a white boy from school who can recite the lyrics to the opening credits of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. Starr’s parents have sent her to a school in the suburbs dominated by white middle-class students. The family own a pet dog, Brickz, and Starr gets to wear the expensive name-brand trainers of her choice. There's a chilling scene where Starr witnesses a police officer force her father to lie on the ground as he searches himįor her YA debut, Angie Thomas gives Starr a relatively stable home life – her father, “Big Mav”, is the proprietor of a downtown convenience store, and her mother is a nurse.She has two brothers, Seven and Sekani. Starr is the only witness to the crime and her 16-year-old shoulders have to bear the ferocious outrage of her race and community. The unarmed Khalil is murdered – shot at point blank range by the man Starr refers to from this moment on as “Officer One-Fifteen”. What happens next crystallises the Black Lives Matter movement and indeed, the whole debate about race in America. Shortly after, their car is pulled over by a police officer.
Fleeing from the party, 16-year-old Starr is led to apparent safety by her friend Khalil. Guys in their freshest kicks and sagging pants grind so close to girls they just about need condoms. Got me feeling basic as hell with my ponytail. “G irls wear their hair coloured, curled, laid, and slayed.
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