Erick Pepper Rivera

A 17-year-old boy on the verge of getting out of the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles finds himself dragged into dealing drugs for a week to help out his addicted mother. He reluctantly wanders around making sales in a melancholy funk with a more enthusiastic buddy until an inevitable collision with some police officers.

The creator says he was inspired by the story of Trayvon Martin, and the book is not bad, but it doesn't seem to offer much beyond what has come before in movies like Fruitvale Station or from just reading the news for the past year or history from the past way too many decades.… (meer)