A Hope In The Unseen

I just finished the book "A Hope In The Unseen" by Richard Suskind, and I think that it was a great book. This book was the story of a boy who attending an extremely dangerous high school in Washington D.C. At Ballou Senior High School, Cedric Jennings (the main character of the book) is at the top of all of his classes. He is one of only a handful of people in his entire class planning on attending college. Although he is made fun of and accused of "wanting to be white", he persists through it all and is accepted in to Brown University. At Brown, he has trouble assimilating in to the culture of a university that is mostly white. He sticks to himself due to his trouble adapting, but slowly opens up. He meets another Black student named Chiniqua, and they start dating. He attends parties with her at the all black dorm, and begins to make more friends. Although he hits rocky points with his stereotypically white room mate Rob, they eventually are able to become friends. Cedric is able to adapt to the culture much better then he had originally thought.