Coates’s emotional reach as a writer and his both lyric and gritty prose.
Coates’s expressionistic book is a sequel of sorts and a bookend to “The Beautiful Struggle,” his evocative 2008 memoir of growing up in Baltimore, the son of a Vietnam vet and former Black Panther - as compelling a portrait of a father-son relationship as Martin Amis’s “Experience” or Geoffrey Wolff’s “The Duke of Deception,” and a showcase for Mr. Scott, Freddie Gray - are dying at the hands of police officers, an America where just last month nine black worshipers were shot and killed in a Charleston, S.C., church by a young white man with apparent links to white supremacist groups online. Coates to his 14-year-old son, Samori, and speaks of the perils of living in a country where unarmed black men and boys - Michael Brown, Tamir Rice, Eric Garner, Walter L. Inspired by James Baldwin’s 1963 classic “The Fire Next Time,” Ta-Nehisi Coates’s new book, “ Between the World and Me,” is a searing meditation on what it means to be black in America today.
0 kommentar(er)
