We Deserve Monuments
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- Jas Hammonds (Écrivain)
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"There are things I didn't want you to know," she said, "because they are painful. Do you understand that?"
"I think I should be able to decide that for myself."
She smiled unkindly. "Oh, because you're grown now?"
"No, because this is my family, too."
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"There are things I didn't want you to know," she said, "because they are painful. Do you understand that?"
"I think I should be able to decide that for myself."
She smiled unkindly. "Oh, because you're grown now?"
"No, because this is my family, too."
Je viens tout juste de finir We Deserve Monuments. C'est le genre de livre pour lequel il faut process toutes les émotions et thèmes abordés sur plusieurs jours. Les traumas intergénérationnels, leur ressenti sans mettre réellement le doigt dessus et les multiples émotions qui s'affrontent sont très bien représentés. C'est une lecture très authentique, dure, belle et émotionnelle mais nécessaire.
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Family secrets, a swoon-worthy romance, and a slow-burn mystery collide in We Deserve Monuments, a YA debut from Jas Hammonds that explores how racial violence can ripple down through generations.
What’s more important: Knowing the truth or keeping the peace?
Seventeen-year-old Avery Anderson is convinced her senior year is ruined when she's uprooted from her life in DC and forced into the hostile home of her terminally ill grandmother, Mama Letty. The tension between Avery’s mom and Mama Letty makes for a frosty arrival and unearths past drama they refuse to talk about. Every time Avery tries to look deeper, she’s turned away, leaving her desperate to learn the secrets that split her family in two.
While tempers flare in her avoidant family, Avery finds friendship in unexpected places: in Simone Cole, her captivating next-door neighbor, and Jade Oliver, daughter of the town’s most prominent family—whose mother’s murder remains unsolved.
As the three girls grow closer—Avery and Simone’s friendship blossoming into romance—the sharp-edged opinions of their small southern town begin to hint at something insidious underneath. The racist history of Bardell, Georgia is rooted in Avery’s family in ways she can’t even imagine. With Mama Letty's health dwindling every day, Avery must decide if digging for the truth is worth toppling the delicate relationships she's built in Bardell—or if some things are better left buried.
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