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A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK
Named a Greatest Guide Choose of 2021 by Harper’s Bazaar and Actual Easy
Named a Most Anticipated Guide of Fall by Folks, Essence, New York Publish, PopSugar, New York Newsday, Leisure Weekly, City & Nation, Bustle, Fortune, and Guide Riot
Advised from alternating views, this “propulsive, deeply felt story of race and friendship” (Folks) follows two ladies, one Black and one white, whose friendship is indelibly altered by a tragic occasion.
Jen and Riley have been finest buddies since kindergarten. As adults, they continue to be as shut as sisters, although their lives have taken completely different instructions. Jen married younger, and after years of attempting, is lastly pregnant. Riley pursued her childhood dream of changing into a tv journalist and is poised to change into one of many first Black feminine anchors of the highest information channel of their hometown of Philadelphia.
However the deep bond they share is severely examined when Jen’s husband, a metropolis police officer, is concerned within the taking pictures of an unarmed Black teenager. Six months pregnant, Jen is in freefall as her future, her husband’s freedom, and her friendship with Riley are thrown into uncertainty. Masking this career-making story, Riley wrestles with the implications of this tragic incident for her Black neighborhood, her ambitions, and her relationship together with her lifelong pal.
Like Tayari Jones’s An American Marriage and Jodi Picoult’s Small Nice Issues, We Are Not Like Them takes “us to uncomfortable locations—in the absolute best method—whereas capturing a lot of what we’re all considering and feeling about race. A pointy, well timed, and soul-satisfying novel” (Emily Giffin, New York Occasions bestselling writer) that’s each a robust dialog starter and a celebration of the enduring energy of friendship.
