The Boy in the Black Suit

Jason Reynolds

• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• eBook ISBN:
  9780571356133
• Year: 2019

Matt wears a black suit every day. No, not because his mom died - although she did, and it sucks. But he wears the suit for his gig at the local funeral home, which pays way better than the Cluck Bucket, and he needs the income since his dad can't handle the bills (or anything, really) on his own. So while Dad's snagging bottles of whiskey, Matt's snagging fifteen bucks an hour. Not bad. But everything else? Not good. Then Matt meets Lovey. Crazy name, and she's been through more crazy stuff than he can imagine. Yet Lovey never cries. She's tough. Really tough. Tough in the way Matt wishes he could be. Which is maybe why he's drawn to her, and definitely why he can't seem to shake her. Because there's nothing more hopeful than finding a person who understands your loneliness - and who can maybe even help take it away.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Landing Page
• Title Page
• Dedication
• Epigraph
• Contents
• Chapter 1: Everything is Backward
• Chapter 2: Head to Foot
• Chapter 3: The Black Suit
• Chapter 4: Nineteen
• Chapter 5: When it Rains …
• Chapter 6: Broken and Bonded
• Chapter 7: Against the Rules
• Chapter 8: Wide Open
• Chapter 9: In Loving Memory
• Chapter 10: Homemade and Homeless
• Chapter 11: Candy Man
• Chapter 12: Like Seeing a Ghost
• Chapter 13: 516
• Chapter 14: My Side of the Story
• Chapter 15: Simple What?
• Chapter 16: Forward
• Chapter 17: One Step at a Time
• Acknowledgements
• About the Author
• Also by the Author
• Praise for Jason Reynolds
• Copyright