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Vernell LaQuan Banks Jr.

This character is an African-American boy whose father is arrested. He makes bad choices without his father to guide him and ends up committing crimes.

Justyce

This character is a first-year prelaw student at Yale, and he writes often to a friend who is in a youth detention center.

Trish Banks

This character has three children. She is in an abusive relationship with her younger children’s father.

Gabe

This character has an older half-brother and an older sister. His father is abusive.

Dasia

This character has an older half-brother and a younger brother. She has an abusive father.

Vernell LaQuan Banks Sr.

This character is a drug dealer who is arrested when his son is nine.

Aunt Tiff

This character is wealthy and lives in a nice suburb of Atlanta. She has a son.

Manny (Emanuel)

This character is an only child in a...

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