Book is based on a viewpoint of young African American girl who raise in the ghetto, her mother a nurse, her father ex-leader of a band from ghetto to whose deals with issues of police brutality ,activism and racial profiling , the title of the book is an acronym to THUG LIFE , “The Hate U GIve F**ks Everybody” by Tupac Shakur that means the cyclical nature of crime, poverty and hate as a result of racism .