The hate u give by Angie Thomas

This was my very first book haul at Waterstones and what a way to start.

Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter lives between two worlds: the neighborhood she calls home and the fancy prep school she attends. That uneasy balance shatters the night she witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a police officer.

A story that places a fierce, necessary spotlight on #BlackLivesMatter.  told with the kind of honesty that makes you put the book down just to breathe. Powerful, urgent, and impossible to forget.