num_pages: 168
description: Alfonso Jones cant wait to play the role of Hamlet in his schools hip-hop rendition of the classic Shakespearean play. He also wants to let his best friend Danetta know how he really feels about her. But as he is buying his first suit an off-duty police officer mistakes a clothes hanger for a gun and he shoots Alfonso.When Alfonso wakes up in the afterlife hes on a ghost train guided by well-known victims of police shootings who teach him what he needs to know about this subterranean spiritual world. Meanwhile Alfonsos family and friends struggle with their grief and seek justice for Alfonso in the streets. As they confront their new realities both Alfonso and those he loves realize the work that lies ahead in the fight for justice.In the first graphic novel for young readers to focus on police brutality and the Black Lives Matter movement as in Hamlet the dead shall speakand the living yield even more surprises.Foreword by Bryan Stevenson Executive Director of the Equal Justice Initiative and author of Just Mercy.
language: English
title: I Am Alfonso Jones
publisher: Tu Books