This book is a must-read for anyone wanting a better understanding of the impact of race on American history and its current society. Coates provides a deeply personal and emotional account of his experiences that are relatable to people of all backgrounds. His writing is powerful and the book offers a unique perspective on the experiences of black Americans.

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• Pulitzer Prize Nominee for General Nonfiction (2016)
• National Book Award for Nonfiction (2015)
• ALA Alex Award (2016)
• Dayton Literary Peace Prize Nominee for Nonfiction (2016)
• PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay (2016)
• National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee for Criticism (2015)
• NAIBA Book of the Year for Nonfiction (2016)
• Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction (2015)
• Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Nonfiction (2015)
• NAACP Image Award for Biography/Autobiography and Nomination for Debut Author (2016)

In a profound work that pivots from the biggest questions about American history and ideals to the most intimate concerns of a father for his son, Ta-Nehisi Coates offers a powerful new framework for understanding our nation’s history and current crisis. Americans have built an empire on the idea of “race,” a falsehood that damages us all but falls most heavily on the bodies of black women and men—bodies exploited through slavery and segregation, and, today, threatened, locked up, and murdered out of all proportion. What is it like to inhabit a black body and find a way to live within it? And how can we all honestly reckon with this fraught history and free ourselves from its burden?Between the World and Me is Ta-Nehisi Coates’s attempt to answer these questions in a letter to his adolescent son. 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.-front flap

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