Bri writes and performs a song documenting the details of her run-in with the school security guards and playing into the stereotypes people see her as. Bri’s performance in the Ring earns the attention of a producer, who schedules her into the recording studio. The experience leaves her angry and shaken about how she is treated as a young Black woman. The next day at her predominately white school, Bri, one of the few Black students, is singled out and tackled to the ground by security guards. Even with Bri’s older brother living at home and working at a pizza shop, the family struggles to make ends meet, and they often have to go without food, electricity, or heat.īri dreams of making it big, so she decides to battle in the Ring, an underground hip-hop venue. At the beginning of the story, Bri’s mother loses her job due to budget cuts, and she spends most of the novel looking for work. Bri has been living with her mother for the past five years, and because of her mother’s tough past, she has trouble finding steady work that pays well. Bri’s mother struggled with drug addiction after Lawless was murdered, and Bri and her brother Trey were left to be raised by her grandparents for several years while her mother was caught up in her addiction. The version used for this guide is the ebook of the Balzer + Bray imprint of HarperCollins Publishers.īrianna “Bri” Jackson, a 16-year-old girl who lives in Garden Heights, dreams of being a rapper like her late father, Lawless. Like in The Hate U Give and its prequel, Concrete Rose (2021), Thomas explores themes of racism, identity, and activism, but with the added component of the music industry as the backdrop of this modern tale.
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