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I think I might understand it, now and then, and I glimpse it and where its going, but then I realize its too big, too much for me to comprehend, and I could go back and analyze it, but wouldn't I end up at the same place? Its funny, it is fantastical, its a journey through the imagination, but the Author, writing in the first person but deliberately unnamed so I suppose representing every Black Man in America, which he pointedly and repeatedly does not want to do, because he has enough of his o
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I honestly don't know how to describe this book. It is best if you just read it. It is a powerful depiction of what it means to be a Black man in America.
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A complicated and interesting story structure that explores trauma, racial inequity and violence.
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