People Kill People
by Ellen Hopkins (Author)
Booktalk: A gun is sold in the classifieds after killing a spouse, bought by a teenager for needed protection. But which one was it? Each has the incentive to pick up a gun, to fire it. Was it Rand or Cami, married teenagers with a young son? Was it Silas or Ashlyn, members of a white supremacist youth organization? Daniel, who fears retaliation because of his race, who possessively clings to Grace, the love of his life? Or Noelle, who lost everything after a devastating accident, and has sunk quietly into depression?
One tense week brings all six people into close contact in a town wrought with political and personal tensions. Someone will fire. And someone will die. But who?
Snippet:
YOU
Yes, you.
Come here.
Please? I need
to ask you something.
Have you ever felt the desire
to hurt someone?
I mean pummel them,
wound them, watch
them bleed?
Did you?
Would you?
Could you?
If I were the gambling type,
I’d put my money on “yes.”
A 2018 Cybils Poetry nominee
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