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The cost of knowing, Brittney Morris

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fiction

The cost of knowing

Brittney Morris

Sixteen year old Alex Rufus is trying his best. He wants to be the best employee at the local ice cream shop; the best boyfriend to his amazing girlfriend, Talia; the best protector of his little brother, Isah. But however much he tries, he often comes up short. It's hard to concentrate when every time he touches an object, or person, Alex sees its future. It's fine when he touches the ice cream scoop and can see what flavour the customer will pick, but it's less fun when he touches his car and sees it submerged in water years from now, or when he touches his girlfriend, and sees them at the precipice of breaking up. But Alex is about to find out the real cost of knowing. When Alex touches a family photo, he sees that his brother, Isah, is going to die, he can't tell how, but he knows it will be soon. If Alex has any chance of saving his brother's future, he will have to deal with the past, but can the curse be broken? A story of brothers, grief, and what it means to be a young Black man in America

adolescent