Biography & Memoir· United States
Between the World and Me
by Ta-Nehisi CoatesAggregate Editorial Score19/100
Goodreads Choice Award
Published 2015English
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Published in 2015, Between the World and Me established Ta-Nehisi Coates as one of the defining voices in biography & memoir. Written as a letter to his teenage son, Coates explores what it means to inhabit a Black body in America—its history of fear, destruction, and resilience. Winner of the National Book Award and widely considered the most important work of African American non-fiction since James Baldwin. Themes of race, Black America, police violence run through the work. The book has received recognition from Goodreads Choice Award 2015.
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✍️ Biography & Memoir
True accounts of real lives, told by the subject or a biographer.
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Goodreads Choice Award
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201519
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