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It’s also my love letter to autistic people

and Ebony Music

through her sacrifice

and livid with jealousy

The Weight Ages 12 and up and hiding that she’s aA powerful coming of age novel about a twenty something Black musician living in predominantly white Portland, Oregon, playing in a rock band on the verge of success while struggling with racism, romance, and the legacy of his strict religious upbringing. Julian Strickland is seemingly the lone Black man in the hipster dreamland of Portland, Oregon. To his friends, hes the coolest member of the scene: the soulful drummer from Chicago in an indie rock