Blog Tour- This Is My America

Posted August 3, 2020 by stuckint in Blog Tours / 0 Comments

I am thrilled to be hosting a spot on the THIS IS MY AMERICA by Kim Johnson Blog Tour hosted by Rockstar Book Tours. Check out my post and make sure to enter the giveaway!

About the Book:

Title: THIS IS MY AMERICA

Author: Kim Johnson

Pub. Date: July 28, 2020

Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers

Formats: Hardcover, eBook, audiobook

Pages: 416

Find it: Goodreads, Amazon, Kindle, Audible, B&N, iBooks, Kobo, TBD, Bookshop.org

Dear Martin meets Just Mercy in this unflinching yet uplifting YA novel that explores the racist injustices in the American justice system.

Every week, seventeen-year-old Tracy Beaumont writes letters to Innocence X, asking the organization to help her father, an innocent Black man on death row. After seven years, Tracy is running out of time-her dad has only 267 days left. Then the unthinkable happens. The police arrive in the night, and Tracy’s older brother, Jamal, goes from being a bright, promising track star to a “thug” on the run, accused of killing a white girl. Determined to save her brother, Tracy investigates what really happened between Jamal and Angela down at the Pike. But will Tracy and her family survive the uncovering of the skeletons of their Texas town’s racist history that still haunt the present?

Fans of Nic Stone, Tiffany D. Jackson, and Jason Reynolds won’t want to miss this provocative and gripping debut.

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About Kim:

KIM JOHNSON held leadership positions in social justice organizations as a teen and in college. She’s now a college administrator who maintains civic engagement throughout the community while also mentoring Black student activists and leaders. She is also the graduate advisor and member of an historically Black sorority. This Is My America is her debut novel and explores racial injustice against innocent Black men who are criminally sentenced and the families left behind to pick up the pieces. She holds degrees from the University of Oregon and the University of Maryland, College Park.

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Giveaway Details:

3 winners will receive a finished copy of THIS IS MY AMERICA, US Only.

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Tour Schedule:

Week One:

7/13/2020	BookHounds YA	Excerpt
7/14/2020	She Just Loves Books	Review
7/15/2020	A Dream Within A Dream	Excerpt
7/16/2020	Thepagesinbetween	Review
7/17/2020	Here’s to Happy Endings	Review

Week Two:

7/20/2020	Not In Jersey	Review
7/21/2020	The Bookwyrm’s Den	Review
7/22/2020	Bri’s Book Nook	Review
7/23/2020	Confessions of a YA Reader	Review
7/24/2020	Emelie’s Books	Review

Week Three:

7/27/2020	Hurn Publications	Review
7/28/2020	Kait Plus Books	Excerpt
7/29/2020	Lifestyle of Me	Review
7/30/2020	Rajiv’s Reviews	Review
7/31/2020	Stuck in the Stacks	Review

Week Four:

8/3/2020	Popthebutterfly Reads	Review
8/4/2020	A Gingerly Review	Excerpt
8/5/2020	Two Chicks on Books	Excerpt
8/6/2020	Life of a Female Bibliophile	Review
8/7/2020	Momfluenster	Review

Our Thoughts

This YA contemporary is for fans of novels like The Hate You U Give and I’m Not Dying with You Tonight. It is definitely a novel that we as white allies feel everyone should read. It’s a good stepping stone on the road to grappling with privilege and empathizing with BIOPOC and their experiences in an inherently racist system

Tracy is a compelling protagonist who faces a lot of harrowing things within a short period of time on the pages of the story. From lobbying for an appeal for her father’s death penalty sentence to proving her brother’s innocence in the murder a local white girl.

Johnson treats a lot of issues that are all too prescient. Among them are police brutality, systematic racism, micro-aggression to name a few. There is so much going on in this book that I want to press it into all my friends and family who like to claim that racism does not exist in the US. Read. This. Book.

The pacing is solid and at the heart of the social issues is this murder mystery that Tracy takes upon herself to solve. While I was not expecting a blatant connection to the KKK it was an interesting facet of the book that was difficult to read but important to learn more about.

Overall, we loved this book and recommend it as essential anti-racist reading. Also, for anyone looking for a good social issues contemporary.