READ Does Smoking Weed Impact Teenagers’ Mental Health? “Victims of police brutality often don’t seem to come from such circumstances,” Stone said about why she had Justyce attend such an unlikely institution. “Dear Martin” addresses societal issues through the perspective of young black Justyce McAllister whose world is not known to many minorities: He attends a prep school with a yearly tuition of $36,000, and friends who live in large mansions and drive Range Rovers to school. Once we situated ourselves around the mics and small table, what I imagined would be an interview where one may crack under pressure quickly became a casual conversation about topics that matter. I promise my hands didn’t begin sweating unceasingly until after the handshakes. Picture the scene: A New York Times bestselling author, a literary world podcaster and me, a nerve-wrecked teen sitting among the two as if it wasn’t my first interview of the sort. In December, I had the pleasure of interviewing Stone at VOX Teen Communications alongside Alison Law as a part of Law’s podcast, Literary Atlanta. What Stone achieves through her timeless novel that parallels adverse realities of police brutality, interracial relationships, and self-discovery is the spark of conversation needed about the injustices that define our society, for while the characters may be fictional, the story is anything but. Her debut novel “Dear Martin” chronicles the life of high-school senior Justyce McAllister as he faces many trials of prejudice and blatant racism, all the while performing a self-assigned experiment in which he attempts to address situations the way Martin Luther King, Jr., might have. Atlantan Nic Stone - creator, artist, mother, and now newly published author - has highlighted our continuous struggle to define who we are in a world that constantly tries to do so for us.
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