The Dead Don't Need Reminding: In Search of Fugitives, Mississippi, and Black TV Nerd Shit Raina Telgemeier A YAVA Award Nominee

A YAVA Award Nominee

Renowned eight-year-old prodigy Eli Newton solved his first puzzle cube at five

an urgent reminder to research everything for yourself and to the fullest extent (“11: Investigate”)

National Book Award winner and author of A First Time for Everything

The Dead Don't Need Reminding: In Search of Fugitives, Mississippi, and Black TV Nerd Shit Raina Telgemeier A YAVA Award NomineeThis brilliant, adult nonfiction debut from the acclaimed MG author and poet weaves two personal narratives of recovery and reclamation, spliced with a dazzle of pop culture The Dead Dont Need Reminding is a braided story of Julian Randalls return from the cliff edge of a harrowing depression and his determination to retrace the hustle of a white passing grandfather to the Mississippi town from which he was driven amid threats of tar and feather.