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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.


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152 Pages
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5 Annual Rereads

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Racism is not merely a simplistic hatred. It is a system of ordering the world.


:JOURNEY
Rereading Between the World and Me
5 Urgent and precise
5 Letter structure lands
4 History gains weight
5 Fear lands differently

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2021-01-08T00:00:00Z
2025-01-11T00:00:00Z

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This is the shortest book on my annual reread list and the one I finish feeling the most changed. Length is not a proxy for impact and this book proves it.