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A review by allison_sirovy
Dreamland (YA Edition): The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic by Sam Quinones
5.0
I think my new favorite genre is narrative nonfiction. Dreamland takes the opiate epidemic and makes it real with human stories.
This book made me see the hypocrisy, though, of how Black and White addicts are/were treated differently. The author Sam Quinones talks about it explicitly - very briefly, but it was clear while reading the differences between the treatment of Black and White even though the book focused solely on White addicts. It’s amazing how our country rallied around White addicts and became much softer on crime, but Black addicts are still looked at as needing tough on crime laws.
Young adult adaptation: I’d recommend 7th grade and up.
This book made me see the hypocrisy, though, of how Black and White addicts are/were treated differently. The author Sam Quinones talks about it explicitly - very briefly, but it was clear while reading the differences between the treatment of Black and White even though the book focused solely on White addicts. It’s amazing how our country rallied around White addicts and became much softer on crime, but Black addicts are still looked at as needing tough on crime laws.
Young adult adaptation: I’d recommend 7th grade and up.