Transmuting Pain into Poetry: Angie Thomas’s ‘On the Come Up’
One of the highlights of my time as a bookseller was experiencing the exponential euphoria of bibliophiles the world over when Angie Thomas’s The Hate U Give first hit the shelves, and then getting to hand-sell it ad infinitum. Hand-selling, for the uninitiated, is bookshop lingo for successfully convincing a customer to buy a title they weren’t …