The Boy in the Black Suit (23 page)

ALSO BY JASON REYNOLDS

When I Was the Greatest

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This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real places are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and events are products of the author's imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or places or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

Text copyright © 2015 by Jason Reynolds

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Reynolds, Jason.

Boy in the black suit / Jason Reynolds.—First edition.

pages cm

Summary: Soon after his mother's death, Matt takes a job at a funeral home in his tough Brooklyn neighborhood and, while attending and assisting with funerals, begins to accept her death and his responsibilities as a man.

ISBN 978-1-4424-5950-2 (hardcover)

ISBN 978-1-4424-5952-6 (eBook)

[1. Funeral homes—Fiction. 2. Funeral rites and ceremonies—Fiction. 3. Grief—Fiction. 4. African Americans—Fiction. 5. Family life—New York (State)—Brooklyn—Fiction. 6. Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)—Fiction.] I. Title.

PZ7.R33593Boy 2015

[Fic]—dc23 2014001493