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Amazing and emotional

We Deserve Monuments by Jas Hammonds

November 27, 2022 by LB Leave a Comment

This book is so phenomenal and heart wrenching and absolutely perfect. I found it utterly unputdownable and love Avery, Simone, Zora, Carole, and Mama Letty so much. When Avery’s mom learns of her mom’s cancer diagnosis and that it’s probably the end for her, the Anderson family packs up and moves from DC to Bardell, Georgia. Avery wants to find a way to fix things between her mom and Mama Letty before her death, but that’s hard to do when grappling with a history of […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: Jas Hammonds, queer, Racism, Small town, southern America, we Deserve monuments

LB's CBR14 Review No:19 · Genres: Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: Jas Hammonds, queer, Racism, Small town, southern America, we Deserve monuments ·
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