YA Author's Video on Racism Goes Viral part 2

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A former manager of Little Shop of Stories, the children’s bookstore in Decatur, Ga., Jones has gained acclaim for her 2019 novel I’m Not Dying With You Tonight (Sourcebooks Fire), which was nominated for an NAACP Image Award. Co-authored with Gilly Segal, the book tells the story of two girls whose lives intersect when a race riot breaks out at a high school football game and they simply try to survive.

That message of survival is at the heart of Jones’s video. “The social contract is broken,” she said, adding later, “You broke the contract when you killed us in the streets.”

Fellow authors have shared the video widely, including The Hate U Give author Angie Thomas, who took to Twitter to say, “Y’all are blessed that @kimlatricejones writes for our young people, and half of y’all don’t even know it. Go buy her and @really_gilly’s novel, I’m Not Dying with You Tonight.”

For her own part, Jones expressed gratitude at receiving the support of people like Thomas. “I’m in a surreal universe where my everyday rant has reached the world,” Jones wrote on Twitter, “and is being shared by my IDOLS!”


Source: https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/childrens/childrens-authors/article/83572-ya-author-s-video-on-racism-goes-viral.html

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