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Velshi Banned Book Club: ‘The Knife and the Butterfly’ by Ashley Hope Pérez
MSNBC· 2025-11-15 19:20
16-year-old Aziel wakes up one morning to concrete walls, bars, a locked door, and a sink bolted to the floor. It takes a minute for him to realize where he is. Juvenile detention again.As a member of the notorious MS-13 gang, Aziel is no stranger to juvenile detention, but this time is different. No lawyer, no call, and Azel can't remember what he even did to wind up there. Stranger still, his mysterious case worker has assigned him to a new kind of program.He has to observe another detainee, a white teena ...