MahoganyBooks Front Row is pumped for this book talk with two of our faves!  Join the kick-off virtual event we've all been waiting for featuring international phenomenon and New York Times best selling author, Angie Thomas (The Hate U Give) in conversation with fellow friend and also, New York Times best selling author, Nic Stone.  The highly anticipated release Concrete Rose by Angie will be the featured title of the event and is the prelude to the powerful The Hate U Give which was made into a motion picture.

Kick off 2021 with this dynamic conversation and have your questions ready to go.   Our very own co-owner Ramunda Young will host.

Special Surprise for our first 100 purchasers of the book: 100 exclusive CONCRETE ROSE-themed shoelaces with your ticket!  Note, each ticket includes a copy of the book and shipping fee.  Books ship immediately after the event.

About Angie:   Angie Thomas is the #1 New York Times bestselling, award-winning author of the novels The Hate U Give and On the Come Up, as well as Find Your Voice: A Guided Journal for Writing Your Truth. A former teen rapper who holds a BFA in creative writing, Angie was born, raised, and still resides in Mississippi.

About Nic:  Nic is a New York Times bestselling author of young adult and middle grade fiction.  She is best known for her debut novel Dear Martin and her Middle Grade debut, Clean Getaway. Her novels have been translated into six languages

About Concrete Rose:  Angie Thomas revisits Garden Heights seventeen years before the events of The Hate U Give in this searing and poignant exploration of Black boyhood and manhood.

If there’s one thing seventeen-year-old Maverick Carter knows, it’s that a real man takes care of his family. As the son of a former gang legend, Mav does that the only way he knows how: dealing for the King Lords. With this money he can help his mom, who works two jobs while his dad’s in prison.

Life’s not perfect, but with a fly girlfriend and a cousin who always has his back, Mav’s got everything under control.

Until, that is, Maverick finds out he’s a father.

Suddenly he has a baby, Seven, who depends on him for everything. But it’s not so easy to sling dope, finish school, and raise a child. So when he’s offered the chance to go straight, he takes it. In a world where he’s expected to amount to nothing, maybe Mav can prove he’s different.

When King Lord blood runs through your veins, though, you can't just walk away. Loyalty, revenge, and responsibility threaten to tear Mav apart, especially after the brutal murder of a loved one. He’ll have to figure out for himself what it really means to be a man.

About MahoganyBooks:  Derrick and Ramunda Young are owners/founders of the award-winning, MahoganyBooks in Washington, DC where they focus on books for, by and about people of the African Diaspora. The couple have been featured in Oprah Magazine, TIME Magazine, Essence, Washington Post Steve Harvey TV and Wall Street Journal among others.  Learn more at mahoganybooks.com

Angie Thomas & Nic Stone Discuss Concrete Rose at MahoganyBooks