Between the World and Me
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About This Novel
A book highly recommended by former U. S. President Obama, a winner of the National Book Award, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award, and a touching letter to his son. It writes about the love between father and son, reveals racial discrimination, and understands the American dream. This is a candid letter written by black writer Thanasis Coates as a father to his son. Through beautiful words, he describes the endless fear he felt as a boy in a seemingly peaceful country. With its sharp writing style, mixed writing style, and philosophical and poetic language, this book reveals the harsh reality of racial discrimination in today's American society. It has had a huge impact and won the 2015 National Book Award for Best Nonfiction. The author starts from the harm of racial discrimination to black bodies (lives), describes the personal experience of being a black man, and emphasizes that racial discrimination in the United States has a long history, is deeply rooted, and will continue to persist. The work's incisive analysis of this social phenomenon made it a blockbuster work on the topic of race in the United States in a short period of time. This book is also an analysis of the grand issues in the country's history, pointing out to readers that "the American dream is the enemy of all art, brave thinking, and honest writing."
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