Punching the Air by Ibi Zoboi and Yusef Salaam [in Booklist]
11 Nov, by in Audio, Black/African American, Fiction, Repost, Verse Novel/Nonfiction, Young Adult Readers
What a striking confluence here: National Book Award finalist Ibi Zoboi’s co-writer, Yusef Salaam, was one of the Exonerated Five. Debut narrator Ethan Herisse portrayed the teenage Salaam in Ava DuVernay’s acclaimed dramatization of the aftermath of the Central Park jogger attack, When They See...