Long Way Down -

Jason Reynolds

Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books

2017

320 páginas

10h 40m

ISBN-10: 1481438255

A cannon. A strap.
A piece. A biscuit.
A burner. A heater.
A chopper. A gat.
A hammer
A tool
for RULE

Or, you can call it a gun. That’s what fifteen-year-old Will has shoved in the back waistband of his jeans. See, his brother Shawn was just murdered. And Will knows the rules. No crying. No snitching. Revenge. That’s where Will’s now heading, with that gun shoved in the back waistband of his jeans, the gun that was his brother’s gun. He gets on the elevator, seventh floor, stoked. He knows who he’s after. Or does he? As the elevator stops on the sixth floor, on comes Buck. Buck, Will finds out, is who gave Shawn the gun before Will took the gun. Buck tells Will to check that the gun is even loaded. And that’s when Will sees that one bullet is missing. And the only one who could have fired Shawn’s gun was Shawn. Huh. Will didn’t know that Shawn had ever actually USED his gun. Bigger huh. BUCK IS DEAD. But Buck’s in the elevator? Just as Will’s trying to think this through, the door to the next floor opens. A teenage girl gets on, waves away the smoke from Dead Buck’s cigarette. Will doesn’t know her, but she knew him. Knew. When they were eight. And stray bullets had cut through the playground, and Will had tried to cover her, but she was hit anyway, and so what she wants to know, on that fifth floor elevator stop, is, what if Will, Will with the gun shoved in the back waistband of his jeans, MISSES.

And so it goes, the whole long way down, as the elevator stops on each floor, and at each stop someone connected to his brother gets on to give Will a piece to a bigger story than the one he thinks he knows. A story that might never know an END…if WILL gets off that elevator.

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4 (Muito bom)

Mais que necessário

Um conto admirável e prudente escrito em verso, no qual um rapaz negro de 15 anos teve o irmão assassinado e é forçado a considerar as potenciais consequências de suas ações enquanto ele, com uma arma de fogo, buscando vingança, espera que o elevador de seu prédio chegue ao térreo.

As ambiguidades deixam tudo ainda melhor. A escrita é muito brutal, emocional e bem desenvolvida. A ideia central é o ciclo da violência, e é tão necessário, porque ele não foca no que é certo ou errado. São várias camadas que você vai se afundando a cada página que vai virando. Acho que eu levei menos de uma hora pra terminar de ler ele todo.

Histórias como essa precisam ser contadas mais e mais. Se você está em uma ressaca literária e quer uma leitura rápida e interessante pra te ajudar a se livrar dessa crise, eu recomendo este livro! Obs.: talvez você precise de um lencinho.