Malcolm and Me: A Novel Cover:Paperback and the drive to be

and the drive to be something more

Enter Dari (short for Dariomauritius)

We experience the death of DeShawn's grandmother

Will you choose a path that leads to the light

Malcolm and Me: A Novel Cover:Paperback and the drive to bePhilly native Roberta Forest is a precocious rebel with the soul of a poet. The thirteen year old is young, gifted, black, and Catholicalthough shes uncertain about the Catholic part after she calls Thomas Jefferson a hypocrite for enslaving people and her nun responds with a racist insult. Their ensuing fight makes Roberta question God and the important adults in her life, all of whom seem to see truth as gray when Roberta believes its black or