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May 04, 2018
Alfonso Jones is a high school student at a private art academy in a New York City borough. He plays the trumpet, gets good grades, and is about to be in a hip hop version of the play of Hamlet. He's also celebrating his father's release from prison after being incarcerated for a crime he did not commit. Everything is going great for this teenager until he goes to buy his first suit at a local department store. Suddenly and without warning Alfonso is shot multiple times by an white off-duty police officer who mistakes the suit hanger in Alfonso’s hand with a gun. Now Alfonso rides a ghost train as the story of his past and present whirl by him. There are no cut and dry answers in the graphic novel about police brutality and the Black Lives Matter movement. The ghost train keeps rushing through the tunnels unfortunately picking up more passengers along the way. This book has been called “painfully important” and it will promote needed discussions on a very hard topic.