child in that same year, she was black. the child in texas was white, and i watched how those cases were handled very differently so this inspired the case that jordan the character was following. i could never imagine exactly when this book was released you would go viral for repeating the words of someone we both admire grateful, grand eiffel. i thought to myself, we have to be kidding ourselves. i wrote a whole novel and you re going to act like you re surprised that this term a, exists and that we shouldn t all be concerned about it. so i have this character who is a character that i imagined i could or wished i could have been. jordan manning is speaking up in newsrooms i didn t speak up in. jordan manning is taking on a establishment that i did not because we know the consequences of that, right? you speak out, you ultimately suffer the consequence of being fired and so here jordan