Well, I didn't really get the usual version. "When I was twelve," Starr relates as the cop pulls them over,
Khalil is shot and killed-a car door is opened, a hairbrush mistaken for a gun-with Starr the only witness. On the way, they are stopped by a police officer. She bumps into an old friend, Khalil, who ends up driving her home. The plot gets going with a party in Starr's "hood"-which her parents would not approve of her attending, if they knew. Her boyfriend is white, which allows for some interesting observations and altercations, and her girlfriends-who show themselves by the end to be variously "true"-are black, white, and Asian. This complicates the story in a useful way, for it lets Starr show her readers a range of stances-what she calls code-changing-that help her to fit in wherever she is. Starr's parents decided early on to send Starr and her two brothers (on scholarships) to an exclusive private school, also mostly white.
These people are all intelligent and ambitious, working hard for a better, good life. Her uncle is a police officer, and her aunt, a surgeon, who live in a nearby upper-middle-class mostly white neighborhood. Her father is a grocery store owner, though in his younger days he got mixed up with a gang and served time in prison (which allowed him to leave the gang) her mother is a nurse. The hero of the story is Starr, who is sixteen, well loved by her extended family, smart and savvy. The Hate U Give is a timely and powerful YA book, delving into inner-city life, racism, wrongful deaths, the fight for justice, the complicated existence of African Americans in this society.
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