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  While Imogen, a sixteen-year-old black-belt in Tae Kwon Do, stops throughout a holdup in a nearby restaurant, the gunman is shot and killed by law enforcement, and she blames herself for his death. Prior to the filming, she thought that her black-belt made her tougher than everybody else—more accountable, more able. However now that her sense of self hasbeen questioned, she must rebuild her life, a procedure that contains changing her connection with her family and moving first love with the child who was simply in the restaurant with her throughout the shoot out. With action, love, and a complicated heroine, Bruised presents a lively new voice for the young-adult world—full of black laughter and difficult facts.