It is interesting to see him as a dumb-in-a-teenage-way seventeen-year-old. But gang-related drama further turns Maverick’s world upside-down, and he will have to make some tough choices to keep his family safe and learn to be an upstanding man in his community.įor context, Maverick is the father of Starr, the heroine of The Hate U Give. On top of school and work, Maverick now has to look after an infant he has no idea how to raise.
He’ll have to figure out for himself what it really means to be a man.Seventeen-year-old Maverick Carter lives a normal life in the Garden Heights neighborhood, but soon finds out he is a father. Loyalty, revenge, and responsibility threaten to tear Mav apart, especially after the brutal murder of a loved one. When King Lord blood runs through your veins, though, you can't just walk away. In a world where he’s expected to amount to nothing, maybe Mav can prove he’s different. So when he’s offered the chance to go straight, he takes it.
But it’s not so easy to sling dope, finish school, and raise a child. Suddenly he has a baby, Seven, who depends on him for everything. Until, that is, Maverick finds out he’s a father. Life’s not perfect, but with a fly girlfriend and a cousin who always has his back, Mav’s got everything under control. With this money he can help his mom, who works two jobs while his dad’s in prison. As the son of a former gang legend, Mav does that the only way he knows how: dealing for the King Lords. If there’s one thing seventeen-year-old Maverick Carter knows, it’s that a real man takes care of his family. International phenomenon Angie Thomas revisits Garden Heights seventeen years before the events of The Hate U Give in this searing and poignant exploration of Black boyhood and manhood.
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