*In the Margins 2023 Top YA Fiction Title

Caleb Moon is a young idealistic journalist reporting on everyday racial injustices, but when he is arrested at a police brutality protest he meets a racist white cop. The interactions indicate the lengths to which racism is systemic and pushes Caleb's approach to injustice from theory into practice.

Convinced that journalism isn't how he will change the world Caleb chooses to help a black candidate run for mayor against the white incumbent. The experience exposes him to the machinations of voter suppression and the lengths to which those at the top will go to maintain the status quo. These revelations drive him further underground as he has made powerful enemies.

Race is a powerful, riveting, and timely novel about one man's quest to destroy the system from within before it destroys him.