The Beautiful Struggle

The young James Joyce of the hip-hop generation. – Walter MosleyA kind of hip-hop Portrait of the Artist. * Guardian *A moving father-and-son story . an intense portrait of those whom the black revolution left behind, but who never broke faith with its tenets. * New York Review of Books *A beautifully written, loving portrait of a strong father bringing his sons to manhood. * Booklist *Haunting and healing . a splendid memoir. * Essence *The single best writer on the subject of race in the United States. * New York Observer *A remarkable, blunt portrait of an adolescence filled with danger, chaos, flaws, and tragedy . a love story, dispatched from the frontlines of a family. * Time Out New York *The intellectual heir to James Baldwin. * Financial Times *Told in a dreamy, lyric register redolent of a voiceover in a movie flashback, The Beautiful Struggle is both a touching portrait of filial affection and a paean to the redemptive power of culture. * Prospect *One of the most high-profile commentators on race in the United States …Reading this book is an intoxicating experience – Bernardine Evaristo * New Statesman *This book forces us to ask how far American society has really come, and how much further it has to go. * Financial Times *

Ta-Nehisi Coates is a national correspondent for The Atlantic and the author of the memoir The Beautiful Struggle. Coates has received the National Magazine Award, the Hillman Prize for Opinion and Analysis Journalism, and the George Polk Award for his Atlantic cover story “The Case for Reparations.” His second memoir Between the World and Me was a hugely acclaimed and best selling book, shortlisted for the National Book Award. In 2015, Coates was awarded a MacArthur Genius Award.