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The Boy in the Black Suit

by Jason Reynolds

304 pages · 2016

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Soon after his mother's death, Matt takes a job at a funeral home in his tough Brooklyn neighborhood and, while attending and assisting with funerals, begins to accept her death and his responsibilities as a man.

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