The Silence of Our Friends

Hmm. I understand that this is a fictionalized memoir, based on Long's childhood experiences? I feel like its primary audience would be other white people who grew up in the 60s? It assumes a fair amount of knowledge about the civil rights movement–could maybe be paired with some other writing about the black experience in a classroom setting? But on its own might be a little hard for a lot of teens to grasp, despite its ostensible teen/child narrators.

Still: it's a well-done recollection of segregation's effects on a white family (setting aside the question of do we really need more books about white people facing segregation?), and Nate Powell's art is excellent.