Up until the last chapter of this book, I was in a zone of irritation with the narrator. His rigidity and authoritarian belief in his own correctness made me consider DNFing this book. However, I enjoyed the mom and the discussion of history I lived through (Rodney King riots and aftermath) so I kept going. In the last chapter the narrator has an abrupt change of heart which at least led me to feeling the author was aiming for this throughout the book. 

Any “movement” or “revolution” that cares more for ideological purity and not for the living, breathing people surrounding us is not for me anymore.