Now, with 'Dear Justyce,' my hope is that now that you know that, how might this affect kids who aren't doing everything right?. "I hope 'Dear Martin' opened people's eyes to systemic racism and implicit bias and things that negatively impact a kid who was doing everything right. The two novels offer differing yet equally important facets of Black teens' experience, she said. Quan is smart like Justyce, but life has dealt him challenge after challenge, including an absent father and poverty. "Dear Justyce" echoes "Dear Martin's" epistolary scaffolding, with young Quan writing from his youth detention cell to former schoolmate Justyce, now studying at Yale. These boys trusted me to tell their story." "They told me that their lives were not like Justyce's in 'Dear Martin.' Eventually, they sent me a set of messages to ask if I would be willing to write a book about a boy who is not like Justyce. These are two young men that I met when they were sophomores reading 'Dear Martin,'" Stone said in a phone interview, referencing her 2017 book that topped the New York Times bestseller list. "I met these two boys - the text conversation is printed in the opening author's note of the book. Her newest shows us how much harder it is for Quan, a Black teen whose life drives down a different path.
Stone's debut novel "Dear Martin" followed Justyce, a studious, well-mannered young Black boy who nevertheless battles racism. "Dear Justyce" author Nic Stone stresses how crucial it is for young people to see "positive reflections" of themselves in books.
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