Playing the Cards You're Dealt Literary Fiction I am the teenager who

I am the teenager who sought solace in the verses of the old hymn for which this book is named

and a driving force to right the wrongs our society faces

who haunts them both

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Playing the Cards You're Dealt Literary Fiction I am the teenager whoWith a deft hand, Johnson shows us there's no such thing as "too young" when it comes to questioning big ideas like manhood, or even family. Jason Reynolds, New York Times bestselling author of Look Both Ways and Stamped Literary powerhouse and Coretta Scott King Honor and Boston Globe Horn Book Honor winning author of The Parker Inheritance Varian Johnson explores themes of toxic masculinity and family legacy in this heartfelt, hopeful story of one