Saturated also with thick racial tension between Pearson, who is African-American, and the Latino community, the book hones in on the intrinsic difficulty of having healthy and loyal interpersonal relationships in a fraught social environment. Though it is ruled a suicide, he suspects that other agents are at work, and investigates the death, finding revelations about the hidden life of the town and his family and friends. His general anxiety about being forced to move again is suddenly overshadowed when he discovers Eli’s dead body. Pearson finally finds solace in one of the new towns, getting a job on the school newspaper, a best friend named Eli, and a romantic interest in Eli’s sister, Reya. The family is constantly required to move from city to city, changing identities in response to Pearson’s father’s constant criminal activity. Told in the first person, teenager Nick Pearson narrates his family’s experience in the Witness Protection Program, his father having had ties to a violent and vindictive mafia boss. Fake ID is a mystery novel for young adults published in 2014 by Lamar Giles.
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