What would happen if women suddenly possessed a fierce new power? Teenage girls now have immense physical power--they can cause agonizing pain and even death.
Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the neighborhood where she lives and the prep school she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend at the hands of a police officer.
Americans like to insist that we are living in a postracial, color-blind society. In fact, racist thought is alive and well; it has simply become more sophisticated and more insidious.