Every week, seventeen-year-old Tracy Beaumont writes letters to Innocence X, asking the organization to help her father, an innocent Black man on death row. After seven years, Tracy is running out of time--her dad has only 267 days left. Then the unthinkable happens. The police arrive in the night, and Tracy's older brother, Jamal, goes from being a bright, promising track star to a "thug" on the run, accused of killing a white girl. Determined to save her brother, Tracy investigates what really happened between Jamal and Angela down at the Pike. But will Tracy and her family survive the uncovering of the skeletons of their Texas town's racist history that still haunt the present?

Fans of Nic Stone, Tiffany D. Jackson, and Jason Reynolds won't want to miss this provocative and gripping debut.


每個星期，十七歲的崔西•博蒙特都會寫信給《冤獄平反協會》，請求該組織援救她被判死刑的黑人父親。七年過去了，崔西所剩的時間不多--她的父親只剩下二百六十七天。然後不可思議的事情發生了。警察在夜間到達，崔西的哥哥賈馬爾從一個聰明、前程似錦的田徑明星變成了一個在逃的“暴徒”，警方指控他殺害一個白人女孩。崔西決心救出她的哥哥，她調查了派克河畔賈馬爾和安吉拉之間究竟發生了什麼事。但是，崔西和她的家人能否在至今仍飽受種族歧視的德州小鎮倖存下來呢？

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