{"product_id":"2940172138591","title":"Between the World and Me","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e#1 \u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e BESTSELLER | NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER | NAACP IMAGE AWARD WINNER | PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST | \u003cb\u003eNATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST | NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review ¿ O: The Oprah Magazine ¿ The Washington Post ¿ People ¿ \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly ¿ \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eVogue ¿ Los Angeles Times ¿ San Francisco Chronicle ¿ Chicago Tribune ¿ New York ¿ Newsday ¿ Library Journal ¿ Publishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eHailed 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\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Observer\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e\"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.\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eBetween the World and Me \u003c\/i\u003eis 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, \u003ci\u003eBetween the World and Me \u003c\/i\u003eclearly illuminates the past, bracingly confronts our present, and offers a transcendent vision for a way forward.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eBetween the World and Me\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"I've been wondering who might fill the intellectual void that plagued me after James Baldwin died. Clearly it is Ta-Nehisi Coates. The language of \u003ci\u003eBetween the World and Me, \u003c\/i\u003elike Coates's journey, is visceral, eloquent, and beautifully redemptive. And its examination of the hazards and hopes of black male life is as profound as it is revelatory.\"\u003cb\u003e-Toni Morrison\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Powerful and passionate . . . profoundly moving . . . a searing meditation on what it means to be black in America today.\"\u003cb\u003e-Michiko Kakutani, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Really powerful and emotional.\"\u003cb\u003e-John Legend, \u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Extraordinary.\"\u003cb\u003e-David Remnick, \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Brilliant . . . a mature writer entirely consumed by a momentous subject and working at the extreme of his considerable powers.\"\u003cb\u003e-\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"An eloquent blend of history, reportage, and memoir.\"\u003cb\u003e-\u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"[Coates] speaks resolutely and vividly to all of black America.\"\u003cb\u003e-\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"A work that's both titanic and timely . . . the latest essential reading in America's social canon.\"\u003cb\u003e-\u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47151051210992,"sku":"2940172138591","price":17.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940172138591_p0.jpg?v=1763753957","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940172138591","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}