Between the World and Me
A New York Times Best Seller, National Book Award Winner, NAACP Image Award Winner, and a Pulitzer Prize Finalist, Between the World and Me offers a powerful new framework for understanding our nation’s history and current crisis. Coates shares with his son—and readers—the story of his awakening to the truth about his place in the world through a series of revelatory experiences, from Howard University to Civil War battlefields, from the South Side of Chicago to Paris, from his childhood home to the living rooms of mothers whose children’s lives were taken as American plunder. Beautifully woven from personal narrative, reimagined history, and fresh, emotionally charged reportage, Between the World and Me clearly illuminates the past, bracingly confronts our present, and offers a transcendent vision for a way forward.
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Readers say *Between the World and Me* is a powerful, clear-minded memoir that challenges readers to rethink race and identity in America. Reviewers a...
I really enjoyed this book. There is so much truth and passion in what Coates is writing about. I recommend this for high school seniors and beyond.
This book is about the author's experience as a black man in The United States of America. Dear reader, who not a person of color, I recommend this book. The author delivers a powerful message of what is like to live as a black man in the USA. It is not pleasant.
I felt this book viscerally. I felt myself yearning to understand what black men go through in the US and connecting with parts that I also experienced growing up. Very powerful read. This was my first read of 2016!
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