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First published in Great Britain by
HarperCollins Children’s Books in 2014
First published in this edition in the
United States of America by HarperCollins Children’s Books in 2019
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Source ISBN: 9780008266448
Ebook Edition © ISBN: 9780008266455
Version: 2018-11-06
This book is dedicated to me.
Derek, without you, I would not be where I am today.
Words cannot convey how much I owe you for the guidance you’ve shown me – for your wisdom, your wit, your keen insight and your keener intelligence, your taste, your strength, your integrity and your humility. I won’t mention the charity work you do, or the political activism you’re involved in, or the ecological work you’ve spearheaded. And it’s not just because you won’t talk about it – it’s because no one else does, either.
You have taught me how to be a better person.
Nay – you have taught us all.
Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Dylan Thomas
Contents
Chapter 2: Living in the Shadow
Chapter 3: Throwing Down the Gauntlet
Chapter 5: To Watch the World Burn
Chapter 13: My Friend. My Furniture.
Chapter 16: The National Black Belt Review Board