Review: We Deserve Monuments by Jas Hammonds
We Deserve Monuments
Jas Hammonds
Roaring Brook Press
Published November 29, 2022
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About We Deserve Monuments
Family secrets, a swoon-worthy romance, and a slow-burn mystery collide in WE DESERVE MONUMENTS, a YA debut from Jas Hammonds that explores how racial violence can ripple down through generations.
What’s more important: Knowing the truth or keeping the peace?
Seventeen-year-old Avery Anderson is convinced her senior year is ruined when she’s uprooted from her life in DC and forced into the hostile home of her terminally ill grandmother, Mama Letty. The tension between Avery’s mom and Mama … Continue reading
