5/8/2023 0 Comments On the Come Up by Angie ThomasThat same day, Bri learns that Jay, who’s three years sober after kicking a drug habit, has lost her job, meaning there’s no money to pay for food, rent or electricity. In the next few days, her life goes from bad to worse: Bri makes extra money peddling candy out of her backpack at school, but because she’s one of only a few Black students, the school police suspect her of selling drugs when she refuses to let them search her backpack, they knock her roughly to the ground, pinning her arms behind her back. But once the spotlight is on her, Bri chokes, undone by the aggressiveness of her opponent. Her Aunt Pooh (played by the always effervescent Da’Vine Joy Randolph), who’s managing her nascent career, gets her into a local rap competition-“the Hunger Games of hiphop” is how Bri describes it, and it’s where her dad got his start. Angie Thomas - On The Come Up Indigo Chapters 6.19K subscribers 405 18K views 3 years ago Author Angie Thomas discusses her highly anticipated second novel, On The Come Up the story. Still, 16-year-old Bri hangs onto hers: her late father was the most famous rapper ever to come out of Garden Heights, and she knows she’s gifted enough to walk in his footsteps.
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