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I am really struggling with how to rate this book. There was a lot of power here, as I think there often is in reading someone's personal story, especially when it is so closely tied to critical events and issues in the larger world. There were also some very important concepts -- a lot to think about and process -- that we need to have an honest discussion about in our society in general, and I think that this book could play an important role in that discussion.
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I wanted so badly to rate this 4 stars when I started. I thought it was slightly repetitive, maybe too militant for my tastes. By the end, the tiny things that irked me about Coates' writing were either resolved, or had come to resonate with me. This book is pure poetry. I recommend reading it with the same heart and mind with which you might approach poetry. It brought me to tears many times.
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This book is about the experience of race. But it is also the story of a man's family - the parents that feared for him, the friends who showed him other lives, the friends who died, the son he is raising. It is written beautifully, lyrically, and with a style that reinforces the messages. I listened to the audiobook - read by the author - and loved that aspect as well. I felt the accent and language reinforced this book for me. I enjoyed his tales of the essays his mother would make him write f
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Just read it already.
Yes.
Oct 27, 2015
Alaina
marked it as to-read
Feb 15, 2016
Nicola O.
marked it as to-read
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