Light Bright
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Published by: Graphic Mundi
Release Date: February 2, 2027
Contributors: Kameron White, Quincy Scott Jones
Pages: 168
ISBN13: 978-1637791042
Overview
Fifteen-year-old Trey was looking forward to a summer of street hockey, fireworks, and hanging out with his friends—not his parents’ separation or his exile to a rural town to live with a grandmother he barely knows. In this new place, surrounded by Black relatives who see him differently because of his light, bright skin, he is forced to confront questions he has long avoided about race, privilege, family, and his own identity. With the help of his outspoken cousin Tee and an intriguing new friend named Kareem, Trey begins to untangle painful truths, face prejudice head-on, and forge unexpected connections that make the unfamiliar start to feel like home.
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“Light, Bright is heavy with our legacy of racial pain, buoyant with the love of family and culture and community, and damned charming—it’ll make you laugh just as much as it’ll make you pause, reflect, mourn. It is abundant in its humanity.” —Moses Ose Utomi, author of The Lies of the Ajungo
“This book is perfect for any teen who’s ever faced the horrific prospect of having to spend an entire summer alone with a ‘boring’ granny somewhere far off, hopeful, scared, or just plain old unsuspecting of the deep, personal changes to come.”
—Malcolm Hansen, author of They Come in All Colors
“A tender and unflinching testimonial to being mixed-race, artfully revealing the layers that make us whole and how love is found in the in-between.”
—Stephanie Nina Pitsirilos, author of To Love Like Venus