About Jason Reynolds
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Jason Reynolds is crazy. About stories. After earning a BA in English from The University of Maryland, College Park, he moved to Brooklyn, New York, where you can often find him walking the four blocks from the train to his apartment talking to himself. Well, not really talking to himself, but just repeating character names and plot lines he thought of on the train, over and over again, because he’s afraid he’ll forget it all before he gets home. He is the author of the critically acclaimed When I Was the Greatest and The Boy in the Black Suit. You can find his ramblings at JasonWritesBooks.com.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Reynolds, Jason.
Boy in the black suit / Jason Reynolds.—First edition.
pages cm
Summary: Soon after his mother’s death, Matt takes a job at a funeral home in his tough Brooklyn neighborhood and, while attending and assisting with funerals, begins to accept her death and his responsibilities as a man.
ISBN 978-1-4424-5950-2 (hardcover)
ISBN 978-1-4424-5952-6 (eBook)
[1. Funeral homes—Fiction. 2. Funeral rites and ceremonies—Fiction. 3. Grief—Fiction. 4. African Americans—Fiction. 5. Family life—New York (State)—Brooklyn—Fiction. 6. Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)—Fiction.] I. Title.
PZ7.R33593Boy 2015
[Fic]—dc23 2014001493
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