Divine N Promise: Can't We All Get Along?
In the first volume, the twins, Divine and Promise, told of their Difficult Journey. They began with their teenage parents bringing them into a world of strife, re-lived the deaths of both parents, and recounted the events that followed in their rapidly changing lives. As Volume One concluded, they were thirteen years old. Having just returned from South Africa, they were moving to California with their white stepfather, Jonathan. Volume Two, Can’t We All Get Along?, picks up from where they left off, starting the eighth grade at a local upper class middle school. Each chapter in Volume Two looks through the eyes of these youth and their burning desire to see divisiveness and violence end.
Chapter One, Ripped Apart: 9-11 Attacks begins with Divine and Promise registering for school on their fourteenth birthday. At the school they are exposed to many different cultures and prejudice that heightens after the “9-11 attacks.”
Chapter Two: The Trip to Afghanistan focuses on the friendship that develops between Promise and Rashid. Promise and Rashid bond through basketball. Rashid goes through a family crisis that is all too familiar to Promise. Together they travel to Afghanistan along with Rashid’s family.
Chapter Three: He Seemed So Nice Until? This chapter turns our attention back to Divine, who begins a summer job at her church camp. With her brother gone for the summer, she becomes captivated by a church co-worker. They start an innocent dating experience. All seems to go well until Divine is asked to work with a new boy that is hired at the church.
Chapter Four: Follow the Heart brings Promise home safe, yet changed. Promise decides to embrace Islam as he starts his first year in high school. Divine, as well as his grandparents, who are all devout Christians, think that Promise is too young to make such a major change in lifestyle. They fear he will be targeted if he becomes a Muslim.
Chapter Five: Youth Speaking Truth features Promise and Divine helping to start a non-violence youth forum. Many youth begin to attend the monthly circle. They share stories of joy and sorrow. We begin to see the many ways that youth experience violence.
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