There are two basic things that make up the inspiration for Anger Is A Gift. The afterword mentions that it was conceived in 2012, in a very different genre but based on your experiences as an activist and high school student. Anger is a Gift is an intense book, filled with harsh realities about student life and about confronting trauma on a regular basis. In fact, according to the novel’s afterword, the story was planned as the first book to a science fiction trilogy. When Mark wrote the first draft, he didn’t realize the story was going to become a commentary on coming-of-age while facing police brutality and systematic racism. His novel Anger is a Gift premiered in May 2018 from Tor Teen. His chapter-by-chapter takes on Harry Potter, Discworld, and other works have won readers’ hearts. Then metal detectors and the police show up at his school, and Moss realizes that they have to organize against it, or more people will die.Īuthor Mark Oshiro started his career by reviewing fantasy and science fiction, creating the Mark Reads and Mark Watches blogs and receiving a Hugo nomination for best Fan Writer. High school student Moss lost his father several years ago to police brutality, and he hates how people define him by the incident. Anger Is A Gift is a novel about grief, activism, and living despite trauma.
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