The 152-Page Book I Reread Every Year

Between the World and Me is structured as a letter from Ta-Nehisi Coates to his teenage son. It is about what it means to live in a Black body in America, about fear and beauty and violence and the particular vulnerability of parents raising children into a country that has not resolved its foundational questions. I reread it every January. Each time I am somewhere different in my own life and each time a different section lands with the most weight.