Brittney Morris author of Slay

Published: Sept. 27, 2019, 12:18 a.m.

b'Entertainment Weekly calls SLAY \\u201cThe YA debut we\\u2019re most excited for this year.\\u201d Now that I\\u2019ve read it \\u2013 the book deserves the hype. I speak with author Brittney Morris who\\u2019s written a page turner seventeen-year-old Kiera Johnson is an honors student, a math tutor, and one of the only Black kids at Jefferson Academy. But at home, she joins hundreds of thousands of Black gamers who duel worldwide as Nubian personas in the secret multiplayer online role-playing card game, SLAY. The game is infiltrated by a troll who threatens to sue Kiera for \\u201canti-white discrimination.\\u201d The book examines Keira journey as she learns to harness how to be unapologetically Black in world intimidated by Blackness.
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