SuitabookThe best bad luck I ever had
Kristin Levine
- Reading
- Read together if useful, pausing to compare Dit and Emma’s perspectives on race and friendship. The trial’s outcome and its treatment may be worth revisiting after finishing.
- Themes
- Friendship across racial difference: Dit and Emma become friends despite their differences, and their relationship challenges accepted ways of thinking. The framing presents prejudice and accepted racial divisions as challenges to be questioned, rather than as unquestioned norms.
- Worth knowing
- The plot includes a Black barber’s trial and condemnation, with the children trying to save him.