The release date for the English version of 'On the Come Up' by
Angie Thomas is Feb 2019. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
This is a different cover edition with ISBN 9780062498564.
Bri, who is sixteen, aspires to be among the all-time great rappers. Or at least one day manage to get out of her neighbourhood. Bri has large shoes to fill as the daughter of an underground rap artist who passed away before becoming well-known. But food banks and cutoff warnings are now as much a part of Bri's life as beats and rhymes, when her mum abruptly lost her job. Bri no longer only wants to make ends meet—she has to, given the mounting debt and the imminent threat of homelessness to her family.
Angie Thomas pays tribute to hip-hop in On the Come Up, the genre that first ignited her love of storytelling and still inspires her today. It is the story of fighting for your dreams, even as the odds are stacked against you; of the struggle to become who you are and not who everyone expects you to be; and of the desperate realities of poor and working-class black families.