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Angie Thomas, author of The Hate U Give, on writing her international phenomenon
13 Feb, 2021 07:00 PM
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By: Briar Lawry If you have teens in your life and you haven t heard Angie Thomas s name, you haven t been paying attention. Her debut novel, The Hate U Give, is an international phenomenon: racking up 205 weeks on the New York Times Young Adult bestseller list, spawning a movie starring Amandla Stenberg (and Aotearoa s own K. Apa), a follow-up novel set in the same universe (On the Come Up), and now, a prequel to The Hate U Give, Concrete Rose.
Concrete Rose is set 17 years before The Hate U Give and focuses on the life of Maverick Carter later to be known as Big Mav, the father of The Hate U Give s protagonist, Starr. People had long been asking about Mav s backstory, so Thomas looked hard at who this formidable character must have been when he was a teen himself.