A review by zoot
The Boy in the Black Suit by Jason Reynolds

5.0

I was not ready for this story to be over. I wanted to spend more time with every single one of the characters. This book showed so many different facets of grief and how people move through life after experiencing loss. Matt's was fresh as was his father's and both of them were navigating it very differently. We also got to hear the story of Mr. Ray's loss and of Lovey's loss...and we saw both of them at different stages and living with their pain in different ways. Then there were all of the funerals Matt experienced...I just feel like the biggest takeaway from this book is that there are as many different paths through loss as there are people. This book moved me dearly.