Concrete RoseNo. 1 New York Times bestseller "A powerful and important novel. Observer "No one else who writes like Angie. Phenomenal. The Guardian From international phenomenon Angie Thomas comes a hard hitting return to Garden Heights with the story of Maverick Carter, Starrs father, set seventeen years before the events of the award winning The Hate U Give. With his King Lord dad in prison and his mom working two jobs, seventeen year old Maverick Carter helps