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Presents a novel in verse set in 1970 New York City where fifteen-year-old Jane Flynn has recently lost her father and taken to partying with her friends to cope. Eventually she's arrested by police and placed in a Bronx juvenile prison where she's assaulted. Transferred to the New York State Training School for Girls, she meets peers who welcome her into an underground group known as the Racket, which is filled with like-minded broken souls who experiment...
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"Reverend Doctor John Freeman did not raise his son, Davis, to be touched by any man, let alone a white man. He did not raise his son to whisper a man's name with tenderness. But on the eve of his wedding, all Davis can think of is how beautiful he wants to look when he meets his beloved Everett at the altar. Never mind that his mother, who died decades before, and his father, who spurred him to flee their home in Chagrin Falls, Ohio, for a freer...