A review by courtofsmutandstuff
The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates

5.0

The opening chapter talks about how Coates has been haunted by good writing and that was an absolute hit for me. I was also familiar with some of the Palestinian aspects so that wasn't as striking for me in terms of revelation, but his description of his own evolution was compelling, and there were new details for me as well about Palestine. I really enjoyed how he investigated his own ideas and the structure of each chapter being a different trip/place, especially the idea that fictional places can have power.