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Publisher Description
WHAT DO YOU DO WHEN ALL YOUR CHOICES SUCK?
As far as the student-run Eyewitness News is concerned, J.J. is a journalist. And if he wants to cover the Black Lives Matter protests, EWN needs him there. He'll be a big name someday, the editors say.
J.J.'s father is a Portland police officer, however, and he's demanding J.J. quit EWN, and quit covering the protests. Or leave home and lose his family.
And J.J. must choose: his family or his future.
Sometimes there are no good choices. And J.J. must choose.
This is book 1 in a new-adult suspense series, Newsroom PDX.
Some sex. Bad language. Lots of politics. It's Portland.
TW: attempted suicide.
Customer Reviews
An all-too-familiar dystopia
JJ's first task at the student newspaper is to cover the Black Lives Matter protests in Portland. What he sees forces him to choose between the cop/father he adores and the journalists and protestors he's growing close to.
The only genre that fits this novel is dystopian fiction – except the nightmarish world is our own. The characters and their individual situations may be fictional, but the setting is ripped straight from the headlines.
This contemporary novel delivers heartbreak and warm fuzzies in equal measure through its combo of stark horror and the joy of found family.