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    Hey, Liberal!: A Novel
    Hey, Liberal!: A Novel
    Hey, Liberal!: A Novel
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    Hey, Liberal!: A Novel

    By Shawn Shiflett

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    In this honest novel set in the racial tinderbox of Chicago in 1969, Simon Fleming, the white son of an activist minister, is sent to a predominately African American high school, feeling charged to carry out the family's commitment to school integration. He is dropped into a world where gang warfare, drug abuse, and violence are rampant. Simon's quest for survival introduces him to Clyde, a gangbanger turned political militant; Louis, a brilliant, self-destructive boy; Clark, a racist police officer who vies for allegiance in return for protection; John, a communist teacher who teaches Simon as much about politics as about biology; and Dia, the object of his affections. Hey, Liberal! exposes an out-of-touch education system and the universality of racial violence amidst a nation moving, inch by hard-fought inch, toward a more culturally diverse future.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherChicago Review Press
    Release dateSep 1, 2016
    ISBN9781613735619
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      Last night, I stayed up until 3 in the morning reading Shawn Shiflett's Hey Liberal. I could not go to bed until I read the conclusion of this coming of age story. . Set in 1969 in a school district that was teeming with racial tensions, Shawn's father who was strongly committed to the civil rights movement sends him to a mostly black school. Shawn is thirteen. I kept comparing his experiences to my own. I was twelve and went to summer school in an all black school in Indianapolis in 1958. I got stared at and only made one tentative friend. Shawn's experience, eleven years later was different to an extreme. He had to contend with gangs, race riots and friend who were into drugs.I kept wondering if Shawn would survive. There is strong language and some violence but it all fit with the story. I received a finished copy of this book as a win from LibraryThing from the publishers in exchange for a fair book review. My thoughts and feelings are my own.

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