Thanks so much to NetGalley, the publisher and author for the opportunity to read and review this book!
This is the next in the series of retelling Shakespeare stories - this time Othello. However, the author deftly set the story in the 1970s in Washington DC and made the characters 11-year-olds. Osei is the son of a diplomat, originally from Ghana, is the new boy at school where he is the only Black student.
While the adults in this story are the ones that seem to have the biggest issues with the race card, the biggest part of this story to me was just how accurately the author portrayed childhood and what most of us go through in school - the social ranking, the lunchroom, the playground, first loves. Left to their own devices, these issues are what Osei faced more than the race card as he dealt with the other students.
A quick book with themes that are timeless - from Shakespeare to current age.
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