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Summary
Background
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“Black. Nerd. Problems.” by Lamar Giles
“Out of the Silence” by Kekla Magoon
“The Ingredients” by Jason Reynolds
“Oreo” by Brandy Colbert
“Samson and the Delilahs” by Tochi Onyebuchi
“Stop Playing” by Liara Tamani
“Wild Horses, Wild Hearts” by Jay Coles
“Whoa!” by Rita Williams-Garcia
“Gravity” by Tracey Baptiste
“The Trouble With Drowning” by Dhonielle Clayton
“Kissing Sarah Smart” by Justina Ireland
“Hackathon Summers” by Coe Booth
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Character Analysis
Themes
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Important Quotes
Essay Topics
Garry is a recent high school graduate who lives in Rochester. He spent the first 10 years of his life living in Brooklyn with his mom, who often verbally abused him and neglected him to be with men, before Garry moved to live with his father. He returns to the NYU campus each summer for the Hackathon—a programming competition for high school students.
While he is at the welcome dinner for incoming NYU Computer Science majors, he searches everywhere for a girl, Inaaya, with whom he had spent the last three summers at the Hackathon. The two had agreed that they were coming to NYU for school and would meet each other there at the start of freshman year.
Garry remembers the first three hackathons, where he met Inaaya and grew his relationship with her. At the first, he sees Inaaya with her mother—who wears a hijab—but never works up the courage to speak with her. At the second, Garry decides he needs to speak with her, going up to her with her friends and asking her for a walk. Inaaya tells Garry about how her mother wants her to be a strict Muslim and wear a hijab, but she instead practices religion in her own way.
By Ibi Zoboi