A review by jwinchell
Sure, I'll Be Your Black Friend: Notes from the Other Side of the Fist Bump by Ben Philippe

4.0

I got a little lost reading this work of nonfiction that is mostly a memoir. I got lost mostly because of my own life things, which rarely happens, so I feel like my experience with this book is a two-parter and I can’t remember the first part because of the trauma that is sometimes my life. But today I laid down and decided to finish this and I’m so glad I did. I am a huge fan of The Fieldguide to the North American Teenager and love that Philippe won a Morris Award for it, so of course I was going to read this pithy set of incisive essays about Blackness and his experiences as a Haitian-born Canadian writer living in NYC. Weird funny and smart as hell.