Between The World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates (152 pgs, 3 CDs)

G: "This is your country, this is your world, this is your body, and you must find some way to live within the all of it." Ta-Nehisi Coates.
The author is writing a letter to his young son as he addresses racism through historical events and his own family memories, from the South Side of Chicago to Paris. He describes what it is like to be black in the past and in today's America.

Amazon: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD • Hailed by Toni Morrison as “required reading,” a bold and personal literary exploration of America’s racial history by “the single best writer on the subject of race in the United States” (The New York Observer

“The powerful story of a father’s past and a son’s future . . . Coates offers this eloquent memoir as a letter to his teenage son, bearing witness to his own experiences and conveying passionate hopes for his son’s life. . . . This moving, potent testament might have been titled Black Lives Matter.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)