I wanted more than anything to be a proper adult, listening to Muse and Portishead and watching Wes Anderson movies and smoking menthol cigarettes and talking about philosophy til the wee hours of the morning. Still, sometimes, I slept with my childhood teddy bear. I still listened to the same music, read the same books, wore the same clothes, and needed my dad. I felt so much younger than all of my friends, who seemed to have transitioned to adulthood with silken ease.
They were, most of them, eighteen and adult. I was younger than most of my friends, having skipped a grade in primary school. When I was seventeen, I started university. He’ll have to figure out for himself what it really means to be a man.
Loyalty, revenge, and responsibility threaten to tear Mav apart, especially after the brutal murder of a loved one. When King Lord blood runs through your veins, though, you can’t just walk away. In a world where he’s expected to amount to nothing, maybe Mav can prove he’s different. So when he’s offered the chance to go straight, he takes it. But it’s not so easy to sling dope, finish school, and raise a child. Suddenly he has a baby, Seven, who depends on him for everything. Until, that is, Maverick finds out he’s a father. Life’s not perfect, but with a fly girlfriend and a cousin who always has his back, Mav’s got everything under control. With this money he can help his mom, who works two jobs while his dad’s in prison. As the son of a former gang legend, Mav does that the only way he knows how: dealing for the King Lords. Concrete Rose, Angie Thomas, Walker Books Australia, 2021įrom the publisher: If there’s one thing seventeen-year-old Maverick Carter knows, it’s that a real man takes care of his family.
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