5/5 stars
I have nothing of value to add to the praise of this book, except for a little more of it. A deeply personal and painful examination of race in America, then and now. Coates draws upon the writers that came before him, specifically James Baldwin and Richard Wright (whose poem by the same same name inspired Coates’ book), to discuss race for this generation in epistolary form. Profound and heartbreaking, but written accessibly, this is required reading.
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