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Review title: Hamill's editor must have been asleep at the wheel.
Product review: This book starts out so amazingly promising, the lackluster ending is a huge disappointment. As I read the first half of the book, I actually thought I was reading a new classic -- the kind of book that would be read in junior highs and high schools around the country for years to come. But Hamill loses it about 3/4 the way through. Suddenly, he shifts from a very realistic narrative to fantasy, without batting an eye. Now we've all made writing mistakes and taken inappropriate tangents in our prose. That's the process of writing. But most of the time, we re-read ourselves and/or get good advice from well-meaning friends: "Oops! You slipped off course there." WHERE WAS HAMILL'S EDITOR? This could have been such a great book, with an important lesson for every reader about racism. But with a fantasy ending, nothing carries any weight or teaches any lasting lessons. What a disappointment!
