Agent: Molly Ker Hawn, the Bent Agency, on behalf of Zoë Plant, the Bent Agency. She is an avid tea drinker, a collector of strange mugs and a recent graduate from a university in the Scottish Highlands where she received a BA in English Literature. The story feels slightly overlong, but Devon and Chiamaka are dynamic and multifaceted, deeply human in the face of Aces’ treatment. Faridah bk-ymd is the instant New York Times, International bestselling & Award-winning author of ACE OF SPADES. Àbíké-Íyímídé excels in portraying the conflict of characters who exist in two worlds, one of white privilege and one in which Blackness is not a disadvantage but a point of pride. Musician Devon’s aim to perfect his Juilliard audition piece is disrupted, meanwhile, when a picture of him kissing another male student begins to circulate, outing both without warning. Chi works hard to stay at the top of the high school social hierarchy, but when another girl thwarts Chi’s plan to establish the perfect high school power couple with best friend Jamie, it becomes the talk of the school. Faridah bk-ymd is a writer from South London who has dreamt of writing books about black kids saving (or destroying) the world all her life. Less surprising is the Head Prefect selection: popular, wealthy queen bee Chiamaka Adebayo. where people can’t afford food or health care,” is stunned to suddenly be named a Niveus Academy Senior Prefect. On the first day of senior year, Devon Richards, an unpopular scholarship student from “the side of town. An anonymous texter known as Aces reveals secrets about an elite private school’s only two Black students in this bracing debut that hauntingly explores systemic oppression in predominantly white institutions.
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