When Khalil opens his car door to ask Starr if she’s okay, the officer opens fire, and Starr watches her friend die. The officer pats Khalil down and walks back to his car. Starr and Khalil flee the scene and are pulled over by a police officer for driving with a broken taillight. Starr has just started to catch up with Khalil-her best friend from childhood, who has entered the dangerous world of drug dealing since Starr began attending prep school-when a gang dispute leads to a dancefloor gunfight. At the party, Starr is acutely aware of the double-sided personality this lifestyle engenders: she tries not to act “ghetto” at school, but neighborhood kids accuse her of abandoning them for white friends. Starr’s family lives in Garden Heights, a predominantly black and impoverished urban neighborhood, but she and her brothers attend a ritzy and mostly white private school forty-five minutes away. The novel opens on 16-year-old protagonist Starr Carter attending a spring break party with her friend, Kenya.
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