A review by hodgeonlucy
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

challenging emotional reflective sad slow-paced

4.75

This is a very moving and poignant book, with an impact far greater than you'd expect for 150 pages. Such is the ability of Coates; his writing prowess and profound insight manage to give the reader so much with so little. This is a highly challenging book, that discusses Coates' life and reflects on police brutality as a wider trend on the assault of the bodies of people racialised as black in America. In discussing corporeality amongst other themes of (dis)embodiment, this book is quite sociological. Although it retains its personal and reflective nature, the book does definitely have some academic elements. I think, in that sense, the book may be slightly overwhelming to some people yet I would encourage them to keep reading as it is a wonderfully insightful, challenging, and important book that would provoke reflections in all.
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