Ain't burned all the bright - jason reynolds

Prepare yourself for something unlike anything: A smash-up of art and text for teens that viscerally captures what it is to be Black.

In America.

Right Now.

Written by #1 New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Jason Reynolds.

Jason Reynolds and his best bud, Jason Griffin had a mind-meld.

And they decided to tackle it, in one fell swoop, in about ten sentences, and 300 pages of art, this piece, this contemplation-manifesto-fierce-vulnerable-gorgeous-terrifying-WhatIsWrongWithHumans-hope-filled-hopeful-searing-Eye-Poppingly-Illustrated-tender-heartbreaking-how-The-HECK-did-They-Come-UP-with-This project about oxygen.

And all of the symbolism attached to that word, especially NOW.

And so for anyone who didnt really know what it means to not be able to breathe, REALLY breathe, for generation s, now you know.

And those who already do, youll be nodding yep yep, that is exactly how it is.