num_pages: 384
description: Prepare yourself for something unlike anything: A smash-up of art and text for teens that viscerally captures what it is to be Black. In America. Right Now. Written by #1 New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Jason Reynolds.Jason Reynolds and his best bud Jason Griffin had a mind-meld. And they decided to tackle it in one fell swoop in about ten sentences and 300 pages of art this piece this contemplation-manifesto-fierce-vulnerable-gorgeous-terrifying-WhatIsWrongWithHumans-hope-filled-hopeful-searing-Eye-Poppingly-Illustrated-tender-heartbreaking-how-The-HECK-did-They-Come-UP-with-This project about oxygen. And all of the symbolism attached to that word especially NOW.And so for anyone who didnt really know what it means to not be able to breathe REALLY breathe for generations now you know. And those who already do youll be nodding yep yep that is exactly how it is.
language: English
title: Ain't Burned All the Bright
publisher: Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books