Why read Forgive Me Not?

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In this searing indictment of the juvenile justice system, one teen in detention weighs what she is willing to endure for forgiveness.

All it took was one night and one bad decision for fifteen-year-old Violetta Chen-Samuels' life to go off the rails. After driving drunk and causing the accident that…

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1 author picked Forgive Me Not as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Yi Shun Lai

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This book gave me insights I never knew I needed.

I wanted to keep on diving into Violetta Chen-Samuels’ world and hang out with her until she taught me everything she knew about life, love, family—and incarceration. I don’t have a lot of experience with justice-impacted people, and I haven’t even read a lot of fiction about this population, so it was important to me to read this work, but discovering Baker’s near-future/alternate reality world also kept me going.

I found myself marveling over her skill and her gutsiness. I lived in Queens, where this book is set, for six…

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