Trying to understand one another is how Jenny and Riley eventually move forward. Christine Pride and Jo Piazza’s novel explores the fallout after the shooting of an unarmed Black teen.

As Riley and Jenny struggle to face the tension in their relationship, they are encouraged in different ways to communicate and understand the other’s point of view. She is the national and international bestselling author of many critically acclaimed novels and nonfiction. Cameron was inexperienced he made the bad call This isn’t about race, Riley. A journalist, editor, and podcast host, Jo Piazza is also the author of seven novels, including Charlotte Walsh Likes to Win, If Nuns Ruled the World, and Fitness Junkie. Jo Piazza is a bestselling author, podcast creator, and award-winning journalist. Riley sees the death as personal, a death that could have been her own brother, and reinforces what the Black community already knows: “ will be seen as menacing and scary, as trespassers in places that certain people don’t feel they belong, as people who deserve to be questioned or confronted, or even killed because of the color of their skin” (145). From Jenny’s point of view, “ He shot first, so Kevin had to open fire. Now these women, they can WRITE Terry McMillan, New York Times bestselling author of It’s Not All Downhill from Here. While the shooting of Justin Dwyer is a fact, the story differs depending on whose vantage point it is seen from. Although the craft of the novel quite literally switches between points of view, the complicated shooting at hand asks readers to do the same.

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